Adobe MS Word PDFMaker Office COM add-in output customization

[adam_2770]

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 Dar]

Hi @adaM_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:

1. Extract the content you want for the file name (like a title or date).
2. Save the Word document as a PDF using a custom name.
3. 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

[adam_2770]

Acrobat is installed.

File names are still being generated as written above. They should be 1.pdf, 2.pdf, 3.pdf etc.

Can you share a post-export renaming AW js sub that renames the merged PDF files based on metadata automatically?

E.g. auto rename PDFMailer1121.pdf to 1.pdf, and so on