Question

I am going nuts here. I have tried countless permutations/variations of “save as active document file format PDF” but none seem to work. I get AppleScript errors with all of them.

So can anyone tell me:

What is the exact syntax to save the active document as a PDF file in AppleScript, using Word?

It seems that there is no coherence whatsoever in the Office for Mac scripting, as I have this working for Excel and PowerPoint and even there the syntax is different:

excel

save active workbook in 'MyFile.pdf' as PDF file format

PowerPoint

save active presentation in 'MyFile.pdf' as save as PDF

What is the correct syntax for Word?

Thanks!

Answer 1

It seems I found it after all:

set myDoc to "/Users/X/Desktop/test.docx"
set pdfSavePath to "Users:X:Desktop:test.pdf"

tell application "Microsoft Word"
        activate
        open myDoc
        set theActiveDoc to the active document
        save as theActiveDoc file format format PDF file name pdfSavePath
    end tell

I am no AppleScript expert. I had slashes instead of : as path separators. With : it works