Scottywins Office to PDF

Latest release: 1.7.10

Glass-style Windows interface with glossy buttons, tabs and a reflective progress bar. Portable Windows x64 app with the source project, Help & About, safe batch pauses, disk-space checks, and automatic update notifications.

Download for Windows

About 65 MB | Matching desktop Office programs must be installed and activated.

See fixes and changes by version

Automatic checks at startup and every six hours while open. A popup appears when a newer version is available.

Publisher, Word, Excel & PowerPoint to PDF

Select one or more Office file types and convert a whole folder in batches:

• Microsoft Publisher: .pub
• Microsoft Word: .doc and .docx
• Microsoft Excel: .xls and .xlsx
• Microsoft PowerPoint: .ppt and .pptx

The matching desktop Microsoft Office program must be installed and activated on the conversion PC. Your original Office files are opened read-only; the converter never saves changes to them or deletes them.

Include subfolders, preserve folder structure, and skip existing PDFs to resume a batch. For office teams, the employee folder list pairs each source folder with its own PDF destination, including mapped server drives. New employee entries automatically use a Converted to PDF folder inside that employee’s folder; the app creates it during conversion. The app pauses between batches and when the output drive needs more free space.

Review & Finish

Check your PDFs, then select verified files individually or with Select all. Finish moves PDFs beside originals with normal .pdf names. Changed files and existing PDFs are blocked. Empty Converted to PDF folders are removed; folders containing files are kept.

Originals are kept by default. Optional permanent deletion requires typing DELETE. Review records survive a PC restart under the same Windows account. Only conversions recorded by version 1.7.2 or later appear.

Automatic update checks & install

The app checks for updates at startup and every six hours while it is open. When a newer version is available, a popup offers Download update or Later. Notifications wait until active conversions finish.

Version 1.7.7 supports downloading a verified update from inside the app, then installing it and restarting after you confirm. The app closes briefly during replacement. Your saved settings and license are retained, and you do not need to extract another ZIP for this update method.

You can also use the Updates tab to check manually. Older versions may require downloading and extracting the ZIP to upgrade first. Keep the app extracted in a local folder rather than running it from inside an archive.

Release information for the app

Scottywins Publisher Recovery

Recover old Publisher files with LibreOffice. One user-reported legacy recovery succeeded. Please test your files and inspect every PDF page.

Download Recovery 1.1.5 test bundle with LibreOffice

Smaller Recovery 1.1.5 download — LibreOffice required separately | Original 1.0.0

Small source-only package for reviewers (under 1 MB)

1.1.5 adds Show failed files for filenames, reasons, copying and earlier saved runs. Earlier versions added a saved employee folder list with multi-folder selection. Each listed employee receives a separate Converted to PDF folder. Fixed title text. The app downloads only the EXE for updates. Earlier updates added automatic verified updates with installation and restart, a retained backup and startup rollback. Recovery 1.1.3 and newer can install EXE-only updates from the app after conversion finishes. Older versions require one manual upgrade. It also moves the LibreOffice program location into Settings, simplifies the title bar, and adds Help & About with company and third-party notices. Includes batch pauses, restart-safe review receipts, collision and file-change checks, optional permanent original deletion with exact DELETE confirmation, empty recovered-folder cleanup, a three-success trial and separate Recovery licenses. Originals remain intact during recovery. Real employee-PC testing of these added features is still required.

Internal use: $39.95 USD per PC per month or $159.99 USD per PC lifetime. Covers your own or your organization’s files; paid conversion services for others require the Commercial edition — contact us for pricing. Online checkout is disabled during testing. Contact support for Recovery licensing.

LibreOffice is separately licensed Free Software, included as its unmodified installer with notices and source links. Scottywins paid-service restrictions do not apply to LibreOffice. Recovery licenses and Review & Finish records are separate from Office to PDF.

What changed in each update

Office 1.7.10 / Recovery 1.1.5 — New feature: Show failed files

View failed filenames and reasons, refresh while processing, copy the list, and review earlier saved runs after a restart.

1.7.9 — New feature: excluded folders

• Save folders to exclude, including all subfolders, across individual and employee-folder jobs.
• Use separate Publisher Recovery for the excluded older publications.
• Log and skip inaccessible folders so accessible folders can continue.

1.7.8 — Small fix: batch option visibility

• Disabled options keep readable labels and bright checkmarks.
• Status shows processed counts and the batch pause interval.
• Continue batch activates at a batch or disk-space pause.

1.7.7 — New feature: glass interface

• Added glossy buttons, tabs, cyan borders, tinted folder fields and a reflective progress bar.
• Restored the ampersand in the Review & Finish button label.

1.7.6 — New feature: Select All

Added Select all verified files to Review & Finish, with support for partial selections. Permanent deletion still requires its separate checkbox and typing DELETE.

1.7.5 — Small visual update: glass icon

Added the approved shiny glass SW/document icon to the executable and app windows.

1.7.4 — New feature: custom app icon

Added a Scottywins icon in multiple sizes for the executable, taskbar and window title bars.

1.7.3 — Small fixes & new feature: warnings and folder cleanup

• Made deletion warnings bold and DELETE red.
• Fixed clipped warning text and buttons with automatic sizing.
• Removed empty Converted to PDF folders after finishing; folders containing files are retained.

1.7.2 — Major update: Review & Finish

• Added recorded successful conversions for review after restarting the PC.
• Moves verified PDFs beside originals with normal .pdf names.
• Optional permanent original deletion requires typing DELETE.
• Blocks changed files, duplicate final names and existing destination PDFs.

1.7.1 — Fixes & new feature: employee output folders

• New employee rows automatically use a Converted to PDF folder inside each employee folder.
• Fixed output folders overlapping another employee’s source.
• Fixed recursive files being skipped when output was a parent folder.
• Output and free-space failures now fail the affected file while other jobs continue.

1.7.0 — Major update: employee folder lists

Added saved source/output folder pairs and Add employee folders to queue multiple employee folders at once.

Versions 1.7.2–1.7.5 were local builds; their changes were included in the public 1.7.6 release.