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Microsoft® Word® Documents To PDF Conversion
The Microsoft® Word® to PDFaction task can be used to convert a Word® document into a
PDFfile that can be used in your PReS Workflow process. It can also do a Mail Merge as it
runs the task.
Note
Microsoft® Word® needs to be installed for this task to be functional and to test the
connection.
Input
Acompatible MicrosoftWord Document (see notes).
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 used in the "WinQueue Input" on page254 when
generating PDFfiles.
Output
One of:
l By default, aPDFfile accompanied with basic PDFmetadata. The Metadata contains
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.
Technical
In current versions, the Objectif Lune Printer Driver will naturally add a margin to the
PDF generated by this task. While this will be fixed in future versions, if your PDFis
full bleed you will not get the desired results using this option.
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