Office / Adobe programming?

[commandline]

Hi,
I am a newbie who is dabbling with a few things across perl, MS office
and acrobat to automate

1. conversion of Excel, Powerpoint and Word documents into PDFs
2. I need to merge the PDFs into a single pdf and add page numbers.

I used Perl Win32::OLE module to do task 1.

However, I dunno if its possible to access Adobe classes/objects from
Perl to accomplish task 2. Any suggestions to do this is appreciated.

 

[Ben Morrow]

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I am a newbie who is dabbling with a few things across perl, MS office
and acrobat to automate

1. conversion of Excel, Powerpoint and Word documents into PDFs
2. I need to merge the PDFs into a single pdf and add page numbers.

I used Perl Win32::OLE module to do task 1.

However, I dunno if its possible to access Adobe classes/objects from
Perl to accomplish task 2. Any suggestions to do this is appreciated.

If Acrobat (I assume you have the full version?) exports an OLE
interface, you can automate it in the same way as Office. Otherwise, you
may have more success with Ghostscript and pstools, which google can
find for you.

Ben