Intermediate PDF File Option
Document Converter has an option (InterPDF in $convert_options) to convert Office documents using an intermediate temporary PDF file. The PDF is then converted to TIF using the built-in PDF converter. The following considerations apply:
•The Document Converter print driver is not required.
•This option only works for Office 2010 or later and for Office 2007 SP2 and later, which have the 'save as PDF' option. For Office 2007, you may need to download the add-in which supports this feature from http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=7. The Document Converter does not check that this feature is installed in Office 2007.
•Our testing has shown the use of this option to result in noticeably faster conversion than the use of the print driver. However if you have Adobe Acrobat Professional installed, Microsoft Office may use this for the conversion, and some of the speed advantage is lost.
•Some Powerpoint slides are not standard paper sizes. You should add the IMAGE_OPTIONS keyword scale to avoid truncation of landscape formats and small-size images.
•If you also use the pdfAttach keyword of $convert_options to convert e-mail attachments from Office document formats to PDF, the 'temporary' PDF file is retained for this purpose.
