Convert Word 2003 to PDF from command line

I've had a good look through these forums, but can't get a definitive answer to this question:
Can I use Acrobat Pro to convert a Word 2003 doc to PDF using the Windows command line?
We have an automated report generation process which creates a Word doc. This tends to have lots of TIF images so the Word doc can end up being >15MB. The batch process, run from the command line, then converts the doc into a PDF using PDFCreator (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/).
The problem is that the PDFs are then >15MB, which is too big to email to customers (that's also part of the batch process).
However, if I take the same large Word doc and save it as a PDF in Acrobat Pro, then the PDF is only about 2MB. So Acrobat is doing some more compression than PDFCreator. I've tried all the options on PDFCreator, but I can't make the PDF as small as the Acrobat version.
Any idea how I can get Acrobat Pro (or Distiller?) to convert a Word doc to PDF from the command line?
Thanks,
Johnny

> Can I use Acrobat Pro to convert a Word 2003 doc to PDF using the Windows command line?
No.

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