From: Heesob Park <phasis@...>
Date: 2008-12-15T22:49:01+09:00
Subject: Re: How to create PDF documents from MS word doc using Ruby

2008/12/15 Talib Hussain <talibhn@gmail.com>:
> 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 (http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator)

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 Heesob