In Acrobat Pro 10, under Win7 Pro (SP1) on my new Lenovo ThinkPad with 4 GB of ram, File\Create\Batch Create Multiple Files sometimes works well, but other times Acrobat simply hangs.
Sometimes it hangs because a Word dialog opens out of sight behind it, asking if I want to continue since a doc has tracked changes.
When that happens, I can't get to the word dialog to say 'yes' because Acrobat is blocking it from view, and Acrobat is unresponsive. If I force quit Acrobat, I can get out of the 'freeze' but then for some reason Acrobat is totally disabled and won't even launch, anymore, until I restart my computer!
Other times Acrobat just hangs, with no such word dialog. IT usually says it's opening the application that created the document...but then freezes.
All these hangs make the program a nightmare to use for batch conversions.
And, even when it works, it works slowly...it can take 45 minutes to convert a couple of hundred word docs whose sizes range from 75 to several hundred megabytes.
I used to have a Word Macro script that I got somewhere online, in a word doc, that did batch conversions very quickly....much faster than using Batch Create Multiple Files from within Acrobat Pro.
But lately that script always fails with an error message saying it can't find the file(s) I want it to convert. I guess something has changed somewhere that broke the script...it used to work fiine on my Dell laptop under XP but won't run on the Lenovo. I'm not a visual basic tech, so I can't figure out what's wrong with the script.
I mention this only because the script was very fast....if it can work fast from within Word, why is Acrobat Pro's feature so abysmally slow? It looks as though it has to close and re-launch the Word application for every single file, which may be a big reason why it's so slow. This seems to be a very poor excuse for an Acrobat-supplied batch converstion solution!
The overall result is, I still don't have any way to do fast, reliable batch conversions of Word.docs into PDFs. Any suggestions?
Thanks.....