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Hello, I have a file that my colleague saved with .gwb extension. Is there any possibility to convert it to .pdf file without an interactive whiteboard? I use Windows 8.1 x64. Thank you in advance!Saw this sitting out there with no response..

There are 2 methods that COME to mind.

#1 - Create your own program or track down an already existing converter TOOL.

#2 - Create a keyboard/mouse macro that runs the redundant task so that you can make a process that otherwise is interactive turn into an unattended process which would be a simple point and click and run it with the file to convert in a static location and the end product converted file to be dropped into another static location such as C:\convert\ and the file converted is written to C:\converted\. You simply set to record your actions and go through the process and then tell it to stop recording. Then compile the macro as an EXE file, and then you can run this exe file and the computer will run by itself.

* I have had to make my own macros before for redundant tasks, and I use JitBit Macro Recorder to create them quickly and compile them to run as a stand alone exe. This exe can then be shared with other systems to run the macro as long as the OS and environment is the same when it runs the recorded processes playing them back to the computer in which the computer takes it as user input even though your not touching the computer and its running by itself with keystrokes, mouse actions, and time delays in between each instruction to be executed to accomplish the task.

** The only drawback to using such a macro method is that while this process is happening your computer is not to be touched until the process is completed as for it takes full control of keyboard and mouse controls, and by moving the mouse or typing keys while this macro is running can cause it to malfunction as extra keystrokes are introduced or the X,Y mouse coordinates are offset by mouse movement. So when running macros, I generally have them processed on a 2nd computer so I can continue to work on my first computer.

*** Lastly, if going the macro method be sure to create a time delay before the macro actually starts. To do this I actually trigger the macro to start by placing the start of it into a batch file such as

CODE: [Select]ping 127.0.0.1
start mymacro.exeThis gives you about 4 seconds before the macro starts to get your hands clear from keyboard and mouse. Otherwise you start the macro and the slightest movement of mouse when taking hand away can foul it up.

I use this software a lot for redundant tasks as well as data gathering off the web to be placed into spreadsheets or database entries when performing research which would otherwise be a painful manual process or require lots of programming to pull off parsing website CONTENT.



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