Batch Process Publisher Files

[mnicks]

Converting multiple MS Publisher documents to PDF documents. Is there a way to process them in batch mode?

Thanks
Mark Nicks
mnicks@dallas.net

 

[Eggles]

You can set up watched folders to drop the postscripts into which will automatically then generate the PDFs. But unless someone knows some sort of scripting (not me!) then I think you will still have to at least open each Pub document and print to postscript file.

 

[jax8177]

I too am looking for a way to create multiple pdf documents without opening each file.
I know that with AutoCAD drawings I can use batchplot to pdf as many items as I want, at the same time.
I find it hard to believe that this is not available as a standard through distiller. I would love to know if anyone knows a "standard" way to do this, that does not involve scripting.

 

[tgreer]

It is available, as the previous poster pointed out, through watched folders. Drop your postscript into the folder, it automatically creates the PDFs.

When you talk about "multiple files", it's important to mention the specific print format.

PDF is a specific file format... how can you expect Acrobat to support every conceivable file format as a valid "input" format?

Adobe chose to provide functionality through the printing mechanism... if your application can print, you can usually get a PDF out the back.

Any automation of the printing task has to be provided by the authoring application, and that usually means scripting.

Thomas D. Greer

http://www.tgreer.com