Appreciate the reply, Peter, pleased I wasn’t missing something obvious.
I had managed to set up a macro that is invoked using BTT (or even a trigger word spoken through Dragon), which does what is needed.
That said, I’m happy to report that I managed to figure something out.
This page saw Daniel Grau pop up a droplet originally written by John Welch - it didn’t work initially, but I managed to tweak it slightly, and it’s working as it should now.
[It was initially telling me the droplet was corrupted. I “opened the package contents” and played around with the script, and had to tweak it to open MS Word for Mac, as opposed to MS Word over in my Virtual machine. Saved it as an application, dropped it in the Finder toolbar, and when I drag/drop a Word file on it, it saves that file as a PDF in the same location, without any intervention required on my side. NOTE: The first time I opened it, I had to grant access to Word to the specific folder in Finder (not sure why). I’m running El Cap 10.11.5 and Word for Mac 2016 15.23.2 (160624).]
Here be the script, in case anyone else would find this useful:
on open of theFiles
tell application "/Applications/Microsoft Word.app" to set theOldDefaultPath to get default file path file path type documents path
repeat with x in theFiles
set theDoc to contents of x
tell application "Finder"
set theFilePath to container of theDoc as text
set theFilename to (name of theDoc) & ".pdf"
end tell
tell application "/Applications/Microsoft Word.app"
set default file path file path type documents path path theFilePath
open theDoc
set theActiveDoc to the active document
save as theActiveDoc file format format PDF file name theFilename
close front document of application "/Applications/Microsoft Word.app"
end tell
end repeat
tell application "/Applications/Microsoft Word.app" to set default file path file path type documents path path theOldDefaultPath
end open
Please note that I know next to nothing about AppleScript. Kindly be careful about using the above - it works my side without any issues, but I cannot guarantee the same that side!