vbscript to convert word doc to pdf

Question

I have written a short vbscript that opens a word document, edits a few bookmarks and saves to a new .doc file.

I now need to convert this to a pdf file, which is st

Answer 1

I once wrote a blog article on this matter. The conversion can be done as follows:

Function DocToPdf( docInputFile, pdfOutputFile )

  Dim fileSystemObject
  Dim wordApplication
  Dim wordDocument
  Dim wordDocuments
  Dim baseFolder

  Set fileSystemObject = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
  Set wordApplication = CreateObject("Word.Application")
  Set wordDocuments = wordApplication.Documents

  docInputFile = fileSystemObject.GetAbsolutePathName(docInputFile)
  baseFolder = fileSystemObject.GetParentFolderName(docInputFile)

  If Len(pdfOutputFile) = 0 Then
    pdfOutputFile = fileSystemObject.GetBaseName(docInputFile) + ".pdf"
  End If

  If Len(fileSystemObject.GetParentFolderName(pdfOutputFile)) = 0 Then
    pdfOutputFile = baseFolder + "\" + pdfOutputFile
  End If

  ' Disable any potential macros of the word document.
  wordApplication.WordBasic.DisableAutoMacros

  Set wordDocument = wordDocuments.Open(docInputFile)

  ' See http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb221597.aspx
  wordDocument.SaveAs pdfOutputFile, wdFormatPDF

  wordDocument.Close WdDoNotSaveChanges
  wordApplication.Quit WdDoNotSaveChanges

  Set wordApplication = Nothing
  Set fileSystemObject = Nothing

End Function

It is important to close the files though. Note that you require Word 2007 with PDF plugin or Word 2010+ for doing this.