vbscript to convert word doc to pdf

Question

I have written a short vbscript that opens a word document, edits a few bookmarks and saves to a new .doc file.

I now need to convert this to a pdf file, which is st

Answer 1

According to MS you can save as/to PDF in Word 2010 without add-ons; Word 2007 needs an add-on, see here for VBScript code. In either case, something like

objDoc.SaveAs , wdFormatPDF

should do the trick without involving a 'printer'.

For antique versions of Word the options are (in order of effort/gain ratio):

1. update Word
2. Record a macro of printing to the PDF printer and port the code to VBScript