**Function:** Converts text files to PDF.
**Author**: [Bee Documents](http://www.beedocuments.com/texttopdf.html)
**Notes**: This is actually a drag-and-drop application that contains an Automator Action which appears when the software is installed in /Applications/
. Could be very handy combined with Mail actions.
It would be AWESOME to have a reverse version of this, so that I can convert PDFs to text so that I can use PDF ebooks with my iPod!
Comment by pakkman781 — May 5, 2005 @ 5:56 pm
is there a way to extract the ‘convert to pdf’ action? i have a folder full of hundreds of html files that i want to convert to pdf and combine.
Comment by ian — May 6, 2005 @ 8:39 am
I wonder if it’s possible to record an action that has “print” / “save as PDF” that will work for you?
Comment by Marc — October 19, 2005 @ 4:47 am
Downloaded… man this is slow?! Faster to open document in Word, Print, Save as PDF.
Comment by Marc — October 19, 2005 @ 4:53 am
Given up – still running. Not convinced this works – unless a long file name or similar is causing this to croak?
Comment by Marc — October 19, 2005 @ 5:54 am
This app/plugin seems to be broken under 10.4.2, I’ll check with the dev.
Comment by Steve — October 19, 2005 @ 6:50 am
Not sure if anyone is interested, but I have a PDF to Text action. It’s written in Objective-C and it takes multiple PDF pathnames and outputs a string containing the contents of all of them.
Comment by Gammah — November 9, 2005 @ 9:48 pm
The URL for that would be
http://www.gammah.com/oddmac/PDF2Text.action.zip
Comment by Gammah — November 9, 2005 @ 9:48 pm
very slow, opens the application, when i quit the application it processes the next file though, but i don’t like it, the output is garbled in some documents.
Comment by ehayes — December 26, 2005 @ 6:32 pm
I love your website. It has a lot of great pictures and is very informative.
Comment by Chs Angelroot — August 5, 2006 @ 1:59 am
It is completely inert. It does nothing. It converts nothing and installs nothing.
Comment by Ken — August 30, 2006 @ 11:09 am
Not so bad :)
I thought it could also do it with .doc files but it doesn’t. Someone knows where I could find that ?
.doc to .pdf ??
Comment by Mary — July 2, 2008 @ 6:19 am
Ah never mind people. If you go on Bee Documents website you’ll find an update version of the script. It does what it say in the read-me file :)
Batch convert .doc to .pdf : http://www.beedocuments.com/otherproducts/texttopdfconverter.html
Comment by Mary — July 2, 2008 @ 6:37 am