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[nycphp-talk] DOC to PDF conversion on a LAMP system?

Néstor rotsen at gmail.com
Fri Oct 6 14:34:21 EDT 2006


Openoffice converts DOCs to PDF or RTF

Néstor :-)

On 10/6/06, Rob Marscher <rmarscher at beaffinitive.com> wrote:
>
> 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
> > *capellic
> >
> > /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> >
> > 718 384 0787
> > stephen at capellic.com <mailto:stephen at capellic.com>
> >
> >
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> Rob Marscher
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