Watch folder to convert Microsoft Word to PDF

[E_Thelonius]

Here is a version with microsoft word:

Must Have Hazel Rules

I use an applescript with microsoft word: tell application "Microsoft Word" to set theOldDefaultPath to get default file path file path type documents path -- looks like we change the default path to where the document is and then set it back when we're done try tell application "Finder" set theFilePath to container of theFile as text set ext to name extension of theFile set theName to name of theFile copy length of theName to l copy length of ext to exl set n to l - exl - 1 cop…

Here is a shell script:

Must Have Hazel Rules

I know you can do it with Apple script and Pages, and I’m going to figure out that tool at some point. But for now, I personally do it with this little shell script which I shamelessly stole from somewhere else, so I left the author info in there: #!/bin/bash # Jacob Salmela # 2016-03-12 # Convert annoying DOCX into PDFs with a right-click # Run this as an Automator Service ###### SCRIPT ####### for f in "$@" do # Get the full file PATH without the extension filepathWithoutExtension="${f%…

Here is a version with Calibre

Must Have Hazel Rules

Luckily I have a word version from my university. I have pretty much the same setup as you do and the script works fine for me, strange… have you given Hazel the permission to open and operate your mac? Which version of MacOsX and Word are you using? (Here Mojave 10.14.2 and Word 16.20) [35] Yesterday I tried to come up with a script for Pages thought I had one, but it does not work properly – actually randomly one time it worked, but then it stopped working… I used this hint: Pages to PDF v…

Personal I like the method with calibre the most because you can very easily pass conditions for pagesize, pagenumbers etc to the pdf-version.