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Easily convert Word documents to PDFs
Authored by: joebeone on Oct 13, '03 01:38:21PM

There's many things that antiword and ghostscript cannot do... I would recommend installing (and donating to!) OpenOffice.org, print to a postcript and then use ps2pdf... not a one-liner but much more consistent and agreeable for a production environment.



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Easily convert Word documents to PDFs
Authored by: MichaelJJ on Nov 14, '03 06:15:18PM

How can this be done with OpenOffice over the web? Several people have told me that it can't be done with OpenOffice via the command line.

I too need to convert MS Word Docs to PDF and I need to do it via a PHP script. I need to allow users to upload Word docs and have those files converted to PDF files. The people I'm dealing with aren't tech saavy at all and would have trouble doing something as simple as printing to a postscript file first.

I'm going to try the AntiWord and Ghostscript solution, but if there's a way to do it with OpenOffice, I'd love to hear it.

Thanks!



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