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[Rob Marscher]

That sounds like a pain in the ass :-)  Only think I can think of is 
having a Windows machine somewhere that your Unix webserver ftp's the 
files to.  The Windows machine has a scheduled batch program or 
something that periodically checks a folder to see if any doc files are 
in there... runs something like this command line program to do the 
conversion - <http://www.softinterface.com/Convert-Doc/Convert-Doc.htm> 
- and then ftp's the resulting pdf back to your Unix server.  Obviously 
not ideal...
-Rob

Stephen Musgrave wrote:
> I am hoping for some direction here, other efforts have come up 
> fruitless.  Thanks in advance!
>
> Here's what we need:
>
> We have files on a Unix web server in various formats, the foremost is 
> Word DOC.  We have a script that runs in PHP that gathers all of the 
> documents and creates a PDF document stuffs the files in there.  But 
> the problem is that we can't stuff a Word document into a PDF document 
> without first converting it to a PDF.  What I will need to be able to 
> do is covert that document via PHP or PHP's command line capability 
> (presumably using the exec() command).  We will then return control to 
> our compilation script, pull in the newly converted file and then 
> we're done.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stephen Musgrave
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Rob Marscher
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