Dear list members, is there a way now under Mac OS X 10.12.1 to batch convert DOC or DOCX files to PDF? As I need to do this kind of conversion on a regular basis for several files, it is very time consuming to do it in Word for each file separately. I found some similar threads here in the forum, but the proposed solutions are outdated and so do not work anymore. Thank you!
iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015), OS X El Capitan (10.11.4)
VikingOSX wrote:
Looks like a project for you. 😉
I actually went ahead, downloaded LibreOffice, and tried it 😎
I got the same result you did - the output went into the home folder.
Easy to fix!
Use --outdir to specify the same directory the file came from:
Replace
${CMD} ${ARGS} "${file}" >& /dev/null
with
dir=`dirname "${file}"`
${CMD} ${ARGS} "${file}" --outdir "${dir}" >& /dev/null
works like a charm! 😉
If you add this additional Bash function to the script, and then at the end of the script, call it as shown with the filecount argument, a notification panel will slide in with the filecount when processing is complete.
Notification () {
$(osascript <<-AppleScript
use scripting additions
return display notification "Processed files: " & $1 with title "Word to PDF Conversion Tool" subtitle "Processing Complete"
AppleScript)
}
Notification $filecountThank you for the reply. However, I don't see the category "documents" in Automator anymore. Has it been removed from the latest version of OS X?
With Automator, don't assume that actions are placed in the most logical Library. Look around for the Word Automator actions in other Libraries.
Thank you, Luis. Do you have an script for that?
Thank you, I'll give LibreOffice a shot.
Thank you so much, it worked perfectly! 🙂
Thank you, it's always good to receive notifications!
How to batch convert DOC to PDF?