PDF Converter for Microsoft Word Text Files

This workflow is able to convert Word files (*.docx, *.doc, *.rtf, *.txt, etc) to PDF format.

This workflow is able to convert Word files (*.docx, *.doc, *.rtf, *.txt, etc) to PDF. It can convert either one file at a time or all files in a specified folder.

Arguments:

1. in_WordDocument (String) - the word document which should be converted to pdf.
2. in_PdfDocument (String) - if this is empty, the pdf document will be saved in the same path and with the same name as the in_WordDocument
3. in_WordDocumentsFolder (String) - this is used in case the in_WordDocument is empty.The activity converts all documents in the specified folder to pdf
4. in_PdfDocumentsFolder (String) - this is the output folder for the converted files. If it is empty, the pdf files will be saved in the same path as the word files
5. out_ValidWordDocuments (Array of String) - this output argument returns a list of all the files that were successfully converted
6. out_InvalidWordDocuments (Array of String) - this output argument returns a list of all the files which could not be converted to pdfs
7. out_PdfDocuments (Array of String) - this output argument returns a list of all the pdf files resulted from the convertion

Log messages:

• File WORD_DOCUMENT_NAME could not be converted to pdf - if exception is thrown when trying to convert file
• No files converted - when no files have been converted
• The following files have been converted: - shows the list of all the files which have been converted
• The following files have not been converted because they are invalid: - shows the list of all the files which have not been converted
• Conversion finished

Exceptions:

• in_WordDocument and in_WordDocumentsFolder are empty
• Folder in_WordDocumentsFolder does not exist

NOTE: Installation Guidelines for Snippets can be found here

There are a lot of cases when we need to convert files from Word supported file types (docx, doc, txt, rtf) to PDF. By Importing this workflow a developer's job is simplified. He can invoke this workflow by passing a file or a folder of files to the workflow and it will handle everything from that moment. The workflow returns 3 arrays as output arguments containing the files which could be converted, the files which couldn't be converted and the resulted pdf's for the developer to use later.