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The task uses a printer queue set with the “PReS Word to PDF Printer” driver, which is created
and set by default on-the-fly the first time a Microsoft® Word® Documents to PDF Conversion
action task is run. This printer cannot be shared on the network in order to avoid confusion from
network users, however it is shared between all Microsoft® Word® Document to PDF action
tasks on the same system.
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If using a Microsoft® database such as Access® or Excel®, each software must be installed in
the same version. For example, using Microsoft® Word® 2007 with a Microsoft® Access® 2003
database will cause the task to fail.
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If the database path is specified in the Microsoft® Word® document, the mail merge has to be
performed with the settings specified in the document, otherwise the database path provided in
the task is ignored and can cause different conflicts. To use custom settings, the Microsoft®
Word® document should contain only mail merge fields with no database path entered. The
Microsoft® Word® to PDF action task allows specifying the path of the database and the query to
use. The Use custom settings option is very usefully for using different databases and queries in
a single process.
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If the database is the same for 2 processes, one of two processes aborts. Each process has to
use different databases, or no more than one process with a Microsoft® Word® to PDF task.
Input
A compatible Microsoft Word Document.
Processing
The Word document is converted into a PDF file. If a Mail Merge is made, the mail merge is done in the
document before the document is converted into a PDF file. The conversion is done through the use of
a printer queue - the document is printed to this queue and the print job is converted to PDF. This is the
same technique as used in the "WinQueue Input" on page348 when generating PDF files.
Output
The output is either:
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A PDF file accompanied with basic PDF metadata. This is the default output. The Metadata con-
tains one Document level, and one Data page (and Page) level for each PDF page generated by
the document. When Mail Merge is not selected, this is the only available choice.
Note: The Objectif Lune Printer Driver will naturally add a margin to the PDF generated by
this task. If your PDF is full bleed you will not get the desired results using this option.
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A DOC (Word Document) file which is the result of the mail merge. This output is only available
when doing a mail merge.
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