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

Allen Shaw ashaw at polymerdb.org
Fri Oct 6 14:53:36 EDT 2006


Sure it does, with a human operator, but is there any way to do that in 
a batch or from the command line?

- Allen

Néstor wrote:
> 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
>>
-- 
Allen Shaw
Polymer (http://polymerdb.org)



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