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automating MS Word 2010 -> PDF

I understand that it is possible to have a PowerShell script automate MS Word to read an MS Word document from a folder and save it out as a PDF document (same name, different extension) without bringing up a user GUI (in order to run on a server).

We have a need to run a script like this via the scheduler (once / minute or in a loop) to convert MS Word documents (*.doc, *.docx) to PDF (any relatively current version) on a Windows 2008 R2 (64-bit) server image.

Does anyone have the time to provide a script that can do this? The goal is something that we can have going unattended and is reasonably immune to "hanging".

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Joshua Grantom

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This works great on my desktop (which is fine at this point).

Now I have to move on and get PPT to work. Then onto getting these to run on a server.

Joshua Grantom

Function to convert PPT files to PDF
http://pshscripts.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/convert-pptxtopdfps1.html

Script to perform function from Thomas Lee's blog
http://tfl09.blogspot.com/2012/11/saving-powerpoint-slides-to-pdf-with.html

    $ipath = "E:\SkyDrive\PowerShell V3 Geek Week\"

    Foreach ($ifile in $(ls $ipath -Filter "*.pptx")) {
      # Build name of output file
      $pathname = split-path $ifile
      $filename = split-path $ifile -leaf
      $file     = $filename.split(".")[0]
      $ofile    = $pathname + $file + ".pdf"

      # Convert _this_ file to PDF
       Convert-PptxToPDF -ifile $ifile -OFile $ofile
    }

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automating MS Word 2010 -&gt; PDF

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