Batch convert Publisher to PDF

[beeswax]

Don't know if this is the correct forum but we have a teacher who needs to submit around 300 files to an exam board by Thursday, unfortunately they are in Publisher format but they need to be in PDF format. Is there a free batch converter out there? Edited May 5, 2015 by beeswax

[halbaradkenafin]

You might be able to do it by setting the default printer to a PDF writer and then selecting a few of the documents and clicking Print in explorer. It should send them to the default printer and you'll just have to click through the Save button to wherever you want them storing, hopefully it will keep the name of the file to make it easier to work with. This obviously assumes that all the documents are in the same folder, if not then you're looking at a more complicated/time consuming solution.

[GTX]

Iv done something the same for a work load excel file. I setup a screen at the entrance so the team can see where they are located for the day. This updates every 5 mins as things change throughout the day.

 

You will need e-PDF Document Converter

 

My batch files:

 

Excel.bat

@echo off

:loop

xcopy /y C:\Users\USER\Dropbox\folder\WORKLOAD.xlsx C:\Users\RichardHoward\Desktop\Batch

call "C:\Users\USER\Desktop\PDFBatch.bat"

start "" "C:\Users\USER\Desktop\Batch\WORKLOAD.pdf" /secondary /minimized

timeout /t 300

taskkill /im FoxitReader.exe

taskkill /im EXCEL.exe

goto loop

exit

 

 

PDFBatch.bat

@echo off

"C:\Program Files\e-PDF Document Converter v2.1\doc2pdf.exe" -i "C:\Users\USER\Desktop\Batch\WORKLOAD.xlsx" -o "C:\Users\USER\Desktop\Batch\workload.pdf

 

Im not any kind of pro at Bat files... Have a play and if you have any problems. Let me know

[beeswax]

It turns out the teacher went through each file this morning and converted them to PDF.