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RenShan
RenShan

Reputation: 91

Pywin32 save .docx as pdf

I'm using Word 2013 to automatically create a report as a docx and then save it as a pdf format.

But when I call the function SaveAs2(), the script pop out the "save as" windows and throws this exception : 

(-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0, u'Microsoft Word', u'Command failed', u'wdmain11.chm', 36966, -2146824090), None)

Here is my code to open and to save as a new file:

self.path = os.path.abspath(path)

self.wordApp = win32.Dispatch('Word.Application')  #create a word application object
self.wordApp.Visible = False  # if false hide the word application (app does't open but still usable)

self.document = self.wordApp.Documents.Open(self.path + "/" + documentRef)  # opening the template file



absFileName = "D:\\test.pdf"
        self.document.SaveAs2(FileName=absFileName,FileFormat=17)

And I'm using : python2.7 with pywin32 (build 219)

Does someone had an idea why it doesn't work?

Upvotes: 9

Views: 15907

Answers (3)

D4LI3N
D4LI3N

Reputation: 384

Office 2013 is causing this problem

I have the same issue while using Word 2013 ("Office 2013"),
but when I try to run your code snippet with "Office 365" and "Office 2010", it works.

I can recommend two solutions for now:

  • try out different MS Office versions (365 and 2010 tested)
  • use some online API-s to convert it to PDF

Note:
Changing the module/library won't fix the issue,
only the right Office version will.

Upvotes: 1

Joel Barrantes
Joel Barrantes

Reputation: 91

Use this, don't forget to install win32 like this:

pip install pywin32

the function to convert doc to pdf is like this:

import win32com.client as win32  
def convert_to_pdf(doc):
    """Convert given word document to pdf"""
    word = win32.DispatchEx("Word.Application")
    new_name = doc.replace(".docx", r".pdf")
    worddoc = word.Documents.Open(doc)
    worddoc.SaveAs(new_name, FileFormat=17)
    worddoc.Close()
    return None

path_to_word_document = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), 'report_1.docx')
convert_to_pdf(path_to_word_document)

give me my starts, i really need it :-) for more look for the documentation in the library https://pypi.org/project/pywin32/

Upvotes: 1

James Mills
James Mills

Reputation: 19050

There are a couple of nice libraries to handle this task:

There is also an example of doing exactly this in this ActiveState Recipe Convert Microsoft Word files to PDF with DOCXtoPDF

If you insist on using Windows API(s) there is also an example of doing this via win32com in this recipe Convert doc and docx files to pdf

You could also do this using comtypes (Thanks to .doc to pdf using python)

Example:

import os
import sys


import comtypes.client


wdFormatPDF = 17


def covx_to_pdf(infile, outfile):
    """Convert a Word .docx to PDF"""

    word = comtypes.client.CreateObject('Word.Application')
    doc = word.Documents.Open(infile)
    doc.SaveAs(outfile, FileFormat=wdFormatPDF)
    doc.Close()
    word.Quit()

Upvotes: 5

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