Adobe MS Word PDFMaker Office COM add-in output customization

Question

It has a static numbering method in name generation.  I can change "PDFMailer", but the sequence numbers will look:  As I can see there is no option in Acrobat ribbon's Preferences to change this.

Tariq Ahmad · Answer

Hi @7402662_2770,

Thank you for reaching out. I assume you are looking for a solution to generate dynamic names for the resulting PDFs.

As you have already figured out, this is not quite possible with a built-in option in PDFMaker preferences.

However, you may try the workaround:

Use Action Wizard in Acrobat Pro (Post-export rename):

If you’re merging files later in Acrobat Pro, you can:

Use the Action Wizard to rename the merged PDF based on metadata or batch input.
Combine that with a naming scheme defined in a spreadsheet or watched folder.

I have seen users working with Macros, not suggested by Adobe.

Disclaimer - there is no official support for the script or Macro from Adobe.

Use Word Macros + PDFMaker:

You can write a VBA macro in Word to:

Extract the content you want for the file name (like a title or date).
Save the Word document as a PDF using a custom name.
Optionally merge other PDFs using Acrobat COM objects (if needed).

Example VBA Script:

Sub ExportPDFWithDynamicName()

Dim pdfName As String

pdfName = ActiveDocument.BuiltInDocumentProperties("Title") & "_" & Format(Date, "yyyymmdd") & ".pdf"

' Export to PDF using PDFMaker (Adobe Acrobat)

ActiveDocument.ExportAsFixedFormat OutputFileName:="C:\PDFs\" & pdfName, _

ExportFormat:=wdExportFormatPDF

End Sub

Note: Macro can work when Acrobat is installed.

~Tariq

Use Action Wizard in Acrobat Pro (Post-export rename):

Use Word Macros + PDFMaker:

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