word-to-pdf.py

# convert a directory full of M$word .docx files to PDF 
# REQUIREMENTS: 
# 1.  Only works on Mac.
# 2.  Assign the variable USERNAME to your home directory
# 3.  Requires the PDFwriter printer driver, get it here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfwriterformac/ 
# 3.5 (might require PDFwriter to be your default printer; on my machine it's the only printer, so I haven't tested with any other config
# 4. Requires the launch and appswitch apps from the wonderful Nicholas Riley, get them here: http://sabi.net/nriley/software/

import glob, os, time
homedir = os.getcwd()
pdfdir = '/users/shared/PDFwriter/%s' % USERNAME
for docfile in glob.glob("*.docx"):
	printstring = 'launch -p %s' % docfile
	os.system(printstring)
	os.chdir(pdfdir)
	for x in range(90):
		time.sleep(1)
		if glob.glob('*.pdf'):
			break
	filename = glob.glob('*.pdf')[0]
	moveme = 'mv "%s" "%s/%s.pdf"' % (filename, homedir, docfile[:-5])
	os.system(moveme)
	os.chdir(homedir)
os.system('appswitch -qi com.microsoft.Word')