VBScript Wizardry

[Andrew Kluthe]

What I ended up doing here was using this vbscript to handle it from the shell.

http://www.suodenjoki.dk/us/productions/articles/word2pdf.htm

In case it can help anyone else.

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Andrew Kluthe <andrew at ctech.me> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Trying to use VBScript to turn an open word document into a pdf file.
>
> From looking at
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8807153/vbscript-to-convert-word-doc-to-pdf
>
> and
>
> http://www.robvanderwoude.com/vbstech_automation_word.php#SaveAsPDF
>
> it seems what with word 2010 or word 2007 with an add-on I can use vb
> script to convert a word document into a pdf.
>
> I get an execution error in "the result" when I try this code.
>
> if there is a file tReportFile then
>       launch document tReportFile
>       answer thePDFFileName
>       put "Set objDoc = .ActiveDocument" & cr after sScript
>       put "objDoc.SaveAs " & quote & thePDFFileName & quote & ",
> wdFormatPDF" & cr after sScript
>       answer sScript
>       do sScript as "vbscript"
>       answer the result
>    end if
>
> The document launches in word and but I get an execution error in "the
> result" when the vbscript is ran.
>
> Are there any VBScript/LiveCode wizards out there that could help?
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Andrew Kluthe
> andrew at ctech.me



-- 
Regards,

Andrew Kluthe
andrew at ctech.me