Hi Monks, I would just like to warn you that I am a bit new at perl and am still trying to get the hang of it, so please be kind. After a couple days of searching, I can find no better way of automatically converting a .doc file to .pdf than just have perl control word and let the Adobe PDF Writer do it for me. First, the code: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

use Cwd;
use Win32::OLE qw(in with);
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Word';
use Win32::OLE::Variant;

my $dir = shift || cwd();

my $word;
eval {$word = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('Word.Application')};
die "Word not installed" if $@;
unless (defined $word) {
    $word = Win32::OLE->new('Word.Application', 'Quit')
        or die "Cannot start Word";
}

Win32::OLE->Option(Warn => 3);

print STDERR "Open test.doc\n";
my $doc = $word->{'Documents'}->Open("$dir/test.doc");

print STDERR "save test.pdf\n";
$word->{'ActivePrinter'} = 'Acrobat PDFWriter';

$doc->PrintOut({
                     PrintToFile => 1,
                OutputFileName => "$dir/test.pdf",
                Background => 0,
                Append     => 0,
                Range      => wdPrintAllDocument,
                Item       => wdPrintDocumentContent,
                Copies     => 1,
                PageType   => wdPrintAllPages,
               });

undef $doc;
undef $word;

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This code seems to work except it outputs a pdf file that is 0 bytes. Any ideas why? Ive read all the documentation on Win32::OLE I can find however I find no listing of commands I can use such as the PrintOut command. Any ideas? Apologies ahead of time for my lack of perl skills.

In reply to Manipulating MSWord with Win32::OLE to convert a word document to pdf by ruhk

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