http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-word/archive/2012/09/26/what-s-new-in-word-automation-services.aspxIn Office 2010, we introduced a brand new SharePoint service called Word Automation Services. Word Automation Services allows developers to harness the capabilities of Word on the server. Word Automation Services allows developers to perform the followingen-USTelligent Community 1.5.134.15456 (Build: 5.5.134.15456)http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-word/archive/2012/09/26/what-s-new-in-word-automation-services.aspx#34895Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:54:22 GMT53587256-c606-4c9b-bad4-97c86b12ce62:34895Muhimbi<p>The job based approach and the need for both the source and destination files to live in SharePoint were the two biggest stumbling blocks in the SharePoint 2010 implementation. This prevented us from wholeheartedly recommending the Word Automation Services plug in for the PDF Converter for SharePoint. (See <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://blog.muhimbi.com/2012/08/using-word-automation-services-in.html">blog.muhimbi.com/.../using-word-automation-services-in.html</a>)</p> <p>We will make sure &nbsp;the SP2013 version is updated. Nice work guys.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.office.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=34895" width="1" height="1">