Convert 3000+ word documents to PDF

Report · Apr 15, 2023

I have a huge number of word documents that need converted to PDF.

I signed up for Adobe Acrobat Pro, and I've tried on both windows and osx and both fail, just for different reasons.

I've upgraded office to the latest version on both OSX (16.73) and Windows (Office 365).

When I run the "Create PDF" tool --> Multiple files --> Create Multiple PDF Files --> Add Folder (also tried Add files by hand).

On Windows when I do this, it will randomly just stop/crash -- no error message, just stops. Some PDFs do get done but no where close to all (in 10s of pdfs, not 100s or 1000s)

When I do this on MAC I get several errors. I see it tries to open read only versions of the files:

Then every time it gives this error.

So I'm stuck. What else can I try? Why is it opening up word popping up all on my screen instead of just doing everything in the background?

For windows, why does it just stop/crash/no error message?

Thanks for any ideas

Report · Apr 15, 2023

Acrobat is an interactive tool with some very basic low level automaton - not an industrial converter. (Such tools are rarely interactive viewers/editors and may be really pricey). You probably need - if you must use Acrobat - to convert in batches of 25, maybe 50 files. Expect many checks and failures, so be sure you're set up to find them.