AA2 Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 Hi - I'd like some help with this, the updated workflow doesnt download, I just get a message saying "not found" I would love to have a workflow to convert word docs to PDF easily! Thanks! Link to comment
vdesabou Posted July 25, 2014 Author Share Posted July 25, 2014 Hi - I'd like some help with this, the updated workflow doesnt download, I just get a message saying "not found" I would love to have a workflow to convert word docs to PDF easily! Thanks! Please try again, I fixed the download link Link to comment
AA2 Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 This is brilliant - thanks! Out of interest is there a way to automatically attach it to a mail? Link to comment
vdesabou Posted July 25, 2014 Author Share Posted July 25, 2014 This is brilliant - thanks! Out of interest is there a way to automatically attach it to a mail? Thanks! At the end of the process, the pdf is opened in Alfred window, so you just need to use "File Action" with Email (refer to "Using File Actions" in here http://support.alfredapp.com/features:file-search) Link to comment
Oliver530 Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 Is there no Yosemite support? Doesn't work for me on 10.10.1 Link to comment
vdesabou Posted December 29, 2014 Author Share Posted December 29, 2014 (edited) Is there no Yosemite support? Doesn't work for me on 10.10.1 Yeah, it's broken. Looks like Microsoft screw up something with "Save As" support.. This simple applescript is giving error "Microsoft Word got an error: active document doesn’t understand the “save as” message. (-1708)": tell application "Microsoft Word" open "Macintosh HD:Users:vdesabou:Downloads:test.doc" save as active document file format format PDF file name "Macintosh HD:Users:vdesabou:Downloads:test.pdf" end tell This must be working normally..So it looks a Microsoft Word issue to me. So it's unlikely to have a fix for this workflow soon. EDIT: Word 2011 version 14.2.0: It is working properly. With Word 14.4.7 it is broken. In any case, the source code is open source and available here https://github.com/vdesabou/alfred-convert-word-to-pdf so if you want to have look, you can. If you find anything, you can do a Pull Request. Edited December 30, 2014 by vdesabou Link to comment
MacOCD Posted December 30, 2014 Share Posted December 30, 2014 (edited) [EDIT] Having read the thread from the start it turns out that this is actually Vincent's workflow thread. I'll say then that this workflow is working for me on Yosemite 10.10.1 with Office 2011 using the method I describe below. I'm using Yosemite 10.10.1 with a KShell script called converttopdf.ksh by vdesabou (Vincent) that I'm pretty sure I hear about on these forums. It creates a PDF version of a highlighted word document in Finder in the same folder as the original .doc file. The Shell script runs a separate applescript called converttopdf.applescript for the conversion then it brings up options so that I can automatically send the newly created PDF as an email. I have a keyboard command of OPTION-CMD-P that will trigger this workflow. I use it many times a day. Vincent's Github link for his KShell script is here I'm no shell expert but I'm sure someone here can adapt Vincent's script to just convert to PDF. My workflow is to use Alfred's "run script" workflow option with a keyboard combination to trigger ksh converttopdf.ksh "{query}" in Alfred with the appropriate converttopdf.ksh and converttopdf.applescript scripts held is a workflow folder The converttopdf.applescript script as I have it (from 2013) is copy & pasted below. It could be that this is that same applescript you guys are trying to run directly from Alfred, I'm not sure if it was written by Vincent on run theQuery set these_files to {} -- Convert to PDF set keep_duplicates to "Keep Duplicates" set keep_original to "Keep Original" set microsoftWordWasRunning to "false" set text item delimiters to " " set these_files to text items of (theQuery as string) set the_counter to count of these_files set text item delimiters to "" repeat with i from 1 to the_counter set cur_file to (POSIX file ((item i of these_files) as string)) as string set file_name to (remove_extension(cur_file) & ".pdf") file_name tell application "Microsoft Word" open cur_file tell application "Finder" if exists file file_name then if keep_duplicates is "Discard Duplicates" then delete file file_name else if keep_duplicates is "Keep Duplicates" then set file_name to (file_name & "(duplicate).pdf") end if end if end tell save as active document file format format PDF file name file_name close document 1 saving no if keep_original is "Discard Original" then tell application "Finder" delete cur_file end tell end if end tell end repeat end run on remove_extension(file_name) set theCharacters to characters of file_name set theReverse to reverse of theCharacters as string set extension_length to (offset of "." in theReverse) + 1 set cut_file to (text 1 thru -extension_length) of file_name end remove_extension The converttopdf.ksh script as I have it (from 2013) is copy & pasted below, I've been using the script combination since April 2013 so the version on Vincent's Github page may well be updated/different but as it's working perfectly for me I really haven't seen any point in changing what I'm currently using. #!/bin/ksh -p #set -x #Set IFS variable to only separate on tabs IFS=$'\t' #Create an array with the tab-delimited files passed from Alfred filesFromAlfred=(`echo "$1"`) #Loop through each file in the array for file in ${filesFromAlfred[@]} do IFS=$'\n' #do something with the file filename=$(basename "$file") filedirname=$(dirname "$file") extension="${filename##*.}" filename="${filename%.*}" cp $file /tmp/tmp.$extension osascript converttopdf.applescript "/tmp/tmp.${extension}" if [ $? != 0 ] then if [ -f /tmp/tmp.${extension} ] then rm /tmp/tmp.${extension} fi echo "ERROR during conversion of $file" continue fi if [ -f /tmp/tmp.pdf ] then mv /tmp/tmp.pdf ${filedirname}/${filename}.pdf echo "${filedirname}/${filename}.pdf" fi if [ -f /tmp/tmp.${extension} ] then rm /tmp/tmp.${extension} fi done #Reset IFS to its original state unset IFS osascript <<EOT tell application "Alfred 2" to search "${filedirname}/${filename}.pdf" EOT exit 0 Edited December 30, 2014 by MacOCD Link to comment
vdesabou Posted December 30, 2014 Author Share Posted December 30, 2014 [EDIT] Having read the thread from the start it turns out that this is actually Vincent's workflow thread. I'll say then that this workflow is working for me on Yosemite 10.10.1 with Office 2011 using the method I describe below. Yes that's the same thing Which version of Microsoft word 2011 do you have installed? I have a Mac which has version 14.2.0 and the workflow works. My another Mac has version 14.4.7 and the workflow is broken. So the problem is not related to Yosemite, it is related to an update Microsoft made which has broken the Apple Script "Save As" support, and I can't find anywhere someone complaining about it. I'm not sure how to report bugs to Microsoft, I'll have a look... Link to comment
MacOCD Posted December 30, 2014 Share Posted December 30, 2014 Yes that's the same thing Which version of Microsoft word 2011 do you have installed? I have a Mac which has version 14.2.0 and the workflow works. My another Mac has version 14.4.7 and the workflow is broken. So the problem is not related to Yosemite, it is related to an update Microsoft made which has broken the Apple Script "Save As" support, and I can't find anywhere someone complaining about it. I'm not sure how to report bugs to Microsoft, I'll have a look... I have 14.4.6 Installed and working on 2 different Macs. I will definitely not update them until we know there is a work around Thank you so much for your original script, it's been really useful to me. Link to comment
afordturtle Posted October 1, 2015 Share Posted October 1, 2015 Not sure if this workflow is being maintained anymore, but it was working great for me until I started using Word 2015 on the Mac. Since then it has stopped working. Any ideas on how to modify either script file to get it working again? Thanks! Link to comment
vdesabou Posted October 1, 2015 Author Share Posted October 1, 2015 Not sure if this workflow is being maintained anymore, but it was working great for me until I started using Word 2015 on the Mac. Since then it has stopped working. Any ideas on how to modify either script file to get it working again? Thanks! Microsoft broke AppleScript with their update starting from 14.4.7 and did not fix it yet. I don't have Word 2015 and I don't plan to purchase it, so I can't help.. But the source code is on Github, so anyone can fork and fix it for Word 2015 Link to comment
xilopaint Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 (edited) Not sure if this workflow is being maintained anymore, but it was working great for me until I started using Word 2015 on the Mac. Since then it has stopped working. Any ideas on how to modify either script file to get it working again? Thanks! I have created a new workflow compatible with Word 2016. Edited December 10, 2015 by xilopaint Link to comment
dfay Posted March 24, 2020 Share Posted March 24, 2020 In case anyone is still using version 1.2 of this (like I was) it will work in Mojave with Word 2016 if you change the lines in the Applescript save as active document file format format document default file name thePDF to save as active document file format format PDF file name thePDF Link to comment
nesdroc Posted January 17, 2022 Share Posted January 17, 2022 Is having word a precursor for using the workflow? Just looking to be able to right click in finder and convert to pdf. Link to comment
deanishe Posted January 17, 2022 Share Posted January 17, 2022 3 hours ago, nesdroc said: Is having word a precursor for using the workflow? Yes. It uses Word to do the conversion. 3 hours ago, nesdroc said: Just looking to be able to right click in finder and convert to pdf. Have you looked at Automator, then? You can't run workflows from a context menu. Link to comment
vitor Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 20 hours ago, deanishe said: Have you looked at Automator, then? It’s deprecated in favour of Shortcuts. End result is the same, since shortcuts can be used as Services. 21 hours ago, deanishe said: You can't run workflows from a context menu. We can add a Service which calls the Workflow via External Trigger. Link to comment
deanishe Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 1 hour ago, vitor said: We can add a Service which calls the Workflow via External Trigger. You can, but it seems a bit excessive to make Alfred a dependency to run such a short AppleScript. Link to comment
vitor Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 Ah, right, I didn’t look at the code. Link to comment
nesdroc Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 @vitor and @deanishe Thanks for the input. I'll look at Shortcuts / automator and see what I can come up with. Seem to remember there being some "to pdf" in Shortcuts when I was using it on iPhone. Might just have tunnelen visioned a bit late as I'm discovery Alfred being new to it and all that my first thought now is to do everything using Alfred 😄 Link to comment
nesdroc Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 @vitor I found your Shortcuts workflow. With the argument option will I be able to pass a selected file in Finder? As to call it with the "Make pdf" Shortcut and have it receive whatever file (or files if possible) I have selected in Finder. Not sure if it's just a matter of ticking this box in your workflow? But have I feeling that would be too easy. Link to comment
vitor Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 6 hours ago, nesdroc said: With the argument option will I be able to pass a selected file in Finder? The Workflow already has a File Action separate from that. That is specifically addressed in the very short instructions. Link to comment
nesdroc Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 On 1/19/2022 at 1:22 PM, vitor said: The Workflow already has a File Action separate from that. That is specifically addressed in the very short instructions. Ah, got it now. Don't have all the Alfred terminology down, so I was looking at the workflow and got confused with the unticked "Files" option. Got it going now. Thanks. vitor 1 Link to comment
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