I need a function to convert MS Office documents to PDF

Anybody know of a function that can convert the Microsoft Office documents to PDF?
I will need to do this within File Attach logic - so that the file I end up with will be of PDF type.
thanks for any help!

this might be helpful:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/library.html

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How are you trying to do the conversion. It sounds like you are trying to open them in Acrobat. It may be that your OFFICE did an update and PDF Maker is not working within those products. PDF Maker has to be active and working for you to open those files in Acrobat. You could also open the product and print to the Adobe PDF printer. If that works, then try the Acrobat menu from within the product. That menu is the PDF Maker product and has to work for what you are trying to do.
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Hi there,
This is a hybrid question between Acrobat and SharePoint and I'll post on both forums....
Background:
In a fairly complex application we have a publishing server that utilizes Acrobat to convert Office documents to PDF using the Convert to PDF functionality.
We then publish that PDF to a library in SharePoint. We would like to have those published PDFs searchable by SharePoint search. Unfortunately there is something about these PDFs where SharePoint cannot crawl the content.
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Hi ,
According to your description, my understanding is that the PDFs which are converted from Office documents by Acrobat cannot be crawled in your SharePoint 2010.
For your issue, please make sure these PDFs version is 1.5(Acrobat 6.x) or above.
You can take steps as below for verifying:
Open your PDF using Adobe Reader.
Go to File -> Properties.
Check the PDF Version under Advanced section.
Best Regards,
Eric
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Thanks for your post!
You should know that these forums are specific to the
Acrobat.com website and its set of hosted services, and do
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Open the document in WORD. Select the print menu in WORD (don't know what to call the stupid file icon MS now uses) and select the Adobe PDF printer. See if printing there works.
If the print does work, then skip the next few comments. If it does not, then go back to the print menu and check the print-to-file button and print. You will be asked for a location and file name. Be sure to note where you put the file and change the extension to PS (like filename.ps). Then starte Distiller and open the PS file you created in Distiller (if you forget to change the extension to PS, then it will be a PRN file and just select that one). Check if the PDF is created this time. If not, you should get error messages from Distiller -- copy all of the error message back here for us to see.
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