re: Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Use Windows PowerShell 2.0 to Convert DOC Files to DOCX Files?

Doug — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 03:16:28 GMT

For the PDF question... while I'm new to PowerShell... here's a sample with the PDF:

(Note: for some reason the enumeration didn't work for me. If I hard code the PDF it works.)

[ref]$SaveFormat = "microsoft.office.interop.word.WdSaveFormat" -as [type]

$word = New-Object -ComObject word.application

$word.visible = $false

$infile = "C:\fso\test.docx"

$outfile = "C:\fso\test.pdf"

echo "Converting $infile to pdf as $outfile..."

$doc = $word.documents.open($infile)

# PDF format

$wdFormatPDF = 17

$doc.saveas([ref] $outfile, [ref]$wdFormatPDF)

$doc.close()

$word.Quit()

$word = $null

[gc]::collect()

[gc]::WaitForPendingFinalizers()

Alex — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:37:19 GMT

Hi Scripting-Guy(s),

based on your answer - can i save as PDF, too?

I want to use this function for "on demand creation" of PDF's under the "System-Account".

mni tnx

Alex