Converting a .doc to .PDF automatically using VB

[kamm]

I would like to automate the conversion of an MS Word Document to a .pdf document using Visual Basic. Does anyone know how to go about doing this?
Thanks

 

[bax2000]

Hi,
If you have Acrobat5, it's easy.

1. Save your .doc as rtf.
2. Load into a VB richtextbox
3. Select PDFwriter as the default printer
3. Print the VB richtextbox
4. The result is a PDF file of your original .doc file.

Hope this helps

 

[strongm]

Well, unfortunately not quite. The VB rich text box does not support all the formatting features used by Word, so it would only be a close approximation.

If you've got Word and Acrobat 5, it would be better to automate Word, and get Word to print to PDFWriter. Something like the following:

Option Explicit

Private Sub Command1_Click()
Dim myWord As Word.Application
Dim myDoc As Word.Document
Dim OriginalPrinter as string

Set myWord = New Word.Application

Set myDoc = myWord.Documents.Open("your_document_name&quot
OriginalPrinter = myWord.ActivePrinter
myWord.ActivePrinter = "PDFWriter"
myDoc.PrintOut
myWord.ActivePrinter = OriginalPrinter
myDoc.Close (False)
myWord.Quit
Set myWord = Nothing
End Sub