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:

on open theFiles
	set oldTID to AppleScript's text item delimiters
	repeat with thisFile in theFiles
		-- get file path as posix path
		set inputFilePath to POSIX path of thisFile
		
		set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "."
		-- check for doc & docx, convert them to rtf, reset inputFilePath to point to converted file
		if last text item of inputFilePath is in {"doc", "docx"} then
			do shell script "textutil -convert rtf " & quoted form of inputFilePath
			set inputFilePath to ((text items 1 thru -2 of inputFilePath) & "rtf") as text
		end if
		
		-- create output path - same name with .pdf extension
		set outputFilePathBits to text items of inputFilePath
		set last text item of outputFilePathBits to "pdf"
		set outputFilePath to outputFilePathBits as text
		
		-- create convert command and send to shell
		set AppleScript's text item delimiters to " "
		set cmdList to {"/System/Library/Printers/Libraries/convert", "-f", quoted form of inputFilePath, "-o", quoted form of outputFilePath}
		do shell script (cmdList as text)
	end repeat
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldTID
end open

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...

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