Is there an app, keyboard shortcut, or maybe Hazel rule that allows you to select a group of Word documents in a folder and have PDF versions created?
Thank you!
Probably relatively simple to write a Macro inside Word to do this. Or, if you have DEVONthink, do a “Convert to PDF” command on all the selected files.
Surely a lot of other ways, but I’d stick to Word, but having DEVONthink that’s the easiest on my setup.
Libreoffice has a headless shell command that can convert word to pdf. Your mileage may vary.
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If you don’t mind using the terminal, it’s hard to beat the script called docx2pdf, in my experience. You can just point it at a folder of Word files and it creates PDFs of all of them. It requires Word to be installed, of course, but that’s probably a safe assumption.
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For this sort of task my chosen tool is the Terminal command line pandoc but in your specific case also requires LaTeX to be installed — not a problem for me as I use TeX/LaTeX anyway. LaTeX’s typesetting capability far exceed anything that Word itself (or other word processors) can produce.
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