Testing PDFConverter 2.1.1 & 1.7.3. Don’t understand some of the Tokens. What I want is to navigate in (file) Explorer to folder D:\aaa\bbb, right click on file XXX.doc and convert that file to XXX.pdf in the SAME folder. What tokens will do that?
Hi,
which application are you printing from? Almost no applcations submit the path information in the print job, so most of the time it is impossible to automatically convert to the same directory, at least if you are using the default printing method. Probably the easiest way to work around this is using a script which stores the path information before printing and moves the output file to this location. There is an example script for this in the COM examples of PDFCreator 1.7.3 “Convert2PDF.vbs” you should be able to drag&drop your documents onto that script to convert them to PDF and place them in the same folder as the original file.
best regards,
Like I said, I’m wanting to do this as a right click from (file) Explorer, not as a drag/drop, so I’m using the context menu to activate PDF Convert. I would assume the source path would be available to PDF Convert. FWIW, I’m using Win7 and PDF Convert seems to be calling Word97.
Hi,
if the context menu entry is name “PDF Convert” and not something like “Create PDF or image documents with PDFCreator”, it is most likely not our software.
But assuming you used a shortened name, the PDFCreator context menu entry will look up the application associated with the “print” or “print to” command of the documents filetype in the registry and then print the file from that application.
But good idea, perhaps this is something which can be done in future versions (having a context menu entry to convert to the same path as the original file). We will discuss this in our team.
best regards,
The context menu does say “Create PDF and Bitmap files with PDFCreator” so I assume that’s yours. So creating a pdf in the same dir as the doc is not supported directly. Pity. That’s the only reason I was testing PDFCeator. Thanks for the info.