Batch creation of pdfs in many subdirectories

Question

I have files in subdirectories, the files are one or two Word files and one or two jpg images. I want to combine them into one pdf, assign security to the output pdf file then save the file with the name of the Word document in the same subdirectory. Then I want Acrobat to drop to the next subdirectory and repeat the task outlined above. Will Acrobat 9 do that or if not does Adobe have a version that will? I have 6000 subdirectories to work through.

Cheers,

Rob

try67 · Answer

No version of Acrobat has such a feature built-in. What can be done, though, is to first convert all the non-PDF files to PDFs (using a "blank" Action in the Action Wizard), then run another Action to collect the file-paths, and then use a script to merge those files from each (sub-)folder. Saving those merged files under a specific name is going to be tricky, though.

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