Batch processing (printing) MS Word files as Postscript

Is there a way to take a folder full of MS Word docs (Word 2004) and print them (save them) as postscript files to a specified folder, without changing their names except to add the.ps extension?
I can do this now one at a time via Word and the print dialog, and I've looked at the sample "Convert To PostScript.scpt" that is in the library, but I can't seem to figure it out.
There should be a way for me to select a number of .doc files in folder A, drag them onto the script, have each one open in MS Word, then have it use the print dialog automatically to save as a postscript file in folder B, then close without changing the original Word doc, correct?
Any help anyone can give will be greatly appreciated, Thanks.
733 MHz PowerMac G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Would PDFs suffice?
I recently had a similar need and I ended up installing the "CUPS-PDF" Virtual Printer...
http://www.codepoetry.net/projects/cups-pdf-for-mosx
Then I scripted the Printer Setup Utility to switch to the Virtual Printer, open the docs one at a time in Word, print, close, repeat, the PDFs all end up in a folder on the desktop named "cups-pdf"... the filenames are slightly changed but still recognizable (spaces become underscores) and then looped through those files, renaming and moving them to where I needed them to be.
-- is Printer Setup Utility running?
tell application "System Events" to exists process "Printer Setup Utility"
set wasPrinterSetupUtilityRunning to result
tell application "Printer Setup Utility"
set SavedPrinterSetting to current printer
set current printer to printer "Virtual Printer"
end tell
...open each document in Word, print, close
-- restore printer and quit Printer Setup Utility, if it wasn't open before
tell application "Printer Setup Utility"
set current printer to SavedPrinterSetting
if wasPrinterSetupUtilityRunning is false then quit
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Batch processing different files or not?

Hello, I would like to know if It's possible to batch processing feature with the Acrobat standard version 9.
I want to securize a bund of pdf files from their filename. What's the best version to deploy this subject, standard or professional? I'd like to do a similar shell where I can define a password per file and to establish a security policy.
Do I need the SDK or API or only needed Acrobat Professional?
How can I realize this one?
How would you do that?
Thanks

Hello, ok, then I must adquire the Professional version. Even so, I'd like to know if it's possible secure the collection files with different passwords in an unique process with other ways, ie. from SDK that's free now... or the best good option is batch processing with Professional edition.
In other words, Do exist other ways to do it that I haven't contemplated yet?
Thanks!

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