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Bulk convert text files to PDF
Will this work on Word documents? I have been looking for a way that I could automate the conversion of Word documents into PDFs with the "save as PDF" print screen.
Bulk convert text files to PDF
No. Well, possibly if the word documents are in rtf or text format, but not .doc files. there have been several hints about converting word documents to PDF (search the site), but the general problem seems to be that Word format is proprietary so Apple didn't include a conversion algorithm in CUPS (which is free under GNU license). the file types natively supported are listed here.
It doesn't seem impossible that someone could develop such support as a third party - the file at /usr/share/cups/mime/mime.convs seems to imply that local conversion configurations can be created, at any rate - but they'd still have to work out the proprietary software issue.
Bulk convert text files to PDF
I forgot about textutil which is application independent. Search this forum for "textutil" looking under OS X 10.4. Lots of good hints.
Bulk convert text files to PDF
well, I'd forgotten about textutil as well. You could convert doc and docx files to pdf indirectly by first converting them to rtf format, with the following modifications:
That might lose or mess up some formatting - not everything in a doc file can be represented properly in rtf - but it might do for quick and dirty conversions. Probably it should clean up the intermediary rtf files, too, but...
Bulk convert text files to PDF
For Word documents, either of these scripts, saved as applications, will batch Word files to PDF, The first uses Pages which I like to use the best as it preserves the hyperlinks in Word docs. The second script does it with Word (2008), but hyperlinks are lost. |
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