A long time ago I posted a little Automator routine to convert Word doc/docx files to PDF. Not long after that, this routine ceased to work due to changes in Microsoft Word (I think). It’s still very useful to convert a whole folder of docx files to PDF in order to avoid Word and just use Preview on the Mac. For committee work or for marking students’ work, I often have a whole folder of docx files and would prefer it if they were in PDF format. I found this very nifty trick on the web and thought I’d post a link here to make up for the fact that my old post no longer works.
The full post is here. What is so nice about this Automator solution is that it uses a bash script to do the conversion. This means you don’t need Microsoft Word for it to work! From what I can see it uses the xml in the docx file (and presumably won’t work on older *.doc files) for the conversion. The post describes how to run it as a Service in macOS. Note, that it destroys the docx files, so it should only be used on a copy. It could be run from the command line rather than right-clink, the engine is this little script.
Thanks to Jacob Salmela for posting it.
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