How to create PDF documents from MS word doc using Ruby

Ruby
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Hi Experts,

Could you please tell me how to create PDF documents from MS word doc
using Ruby?

I have no. of documents (Word Files) which I need to convert to .PDF.

TIA,
Talib H.

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2008/12/15 Talib H. [email protected]:

Hi Experts,

Could you please tell me how to create PDF documents from MS word doc
using Ruby?

I have no. of documents (Word Files) which I need to convert to .PDF.

  1. Download and install PDFCreator
    (PDFCreator: Download our free PDF converter here - pdfforge)

  2. Save the following code as word2pdf.rb and run “ruby word2pdf.rb
    *.doc”

adopted from PDFCreator COM Ruby sample code by Frank Heind?fer

require ‘win32ole’

pdfcreator = WIN32OLE.new(‘PDFCreator.clsPDFCreator’)
event = WIN32OLE_EVENT.new(pdfcreator)
event.on_event(‘eReady’) do
$readyState = 1
end

pdfcreator.cStart(‘/NoProcessingAtStartup’)
pdfcreator.setproperty(‘cOption’, ‘UseAutosave’, 1)
pdfcreator.setproperty(‘cOption’, ‘UseAutosaveDirectory’, 1)
pdfcreator.setproperty(‘cOption’, ‘AutosaveFormat’, 0) # 0 = PDF
pdfcreator.cClearCache()
pdfcreator.setproperty(‘cPrinterStop’, false)

word = WIN32OLE.new(‘word.application’)
word.activeprinter = ‘PDFCreator’

ARGV.each do |file|

pdfcreator.setproperty(‘cOption’, ‘AutosaveDirectory’,
File.dirname(file))
pdfcreator.setproperty(‘cOption’, ‘AutosaveFilename’,
File.basename(file, File.extname(file)))
file = file.gsub(‘/’,‘\’)
if !FileTest.exist?(file) then
print ‘Can’'t find the file: ', file
break
end

doc = word.documents.open(file,‘ReadOnly’ => true)
$readyState = 0
word.printout
while $readyState==0
pdfcreator.cOption(‘UseAutosave’)
sleep 1
end
word.activedocument.close(false)
end

word.quit
pdfcreator.cClearCache()
pdfcreator.cClose()

HTH,

Park H.

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Heesob P. wrote:

2008/12/15 Talib H. [email protected]:

Hi Experts,

Could you please tell me how to create PDF documents from MS word doc
using Ruby?

I have no. of documents (Word Files) which I need to convert to .PDF.
end

HTH,

Park H.

Thanks a lot