Re: Creating PDF from MS Word Document
Re: Creating PDF from MS Word Document
- Subject: Re: Creating PDF from MS Word Document
- From: Sacha Mallais <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 15:53:42 -0700
On May 17, 2005, at 3:22 pm, Albert Jagnow wrote:
Without getting into too many details I have the need to generate PDF
documents from MS Word documents. There are thousands of Word
documents and some change very frequently, yet only a few are accessed
from the web on any given day. What I am looking for is a method
using a WebObjects application to convert the document to a PDF on the
fly when a user requests the document from the web. Does anyone have
a suggestion on how to accomplish this using a WebObjects application
deployed on a Mac OS X server (Panther). I am wondering if I
installed Word on the server if I could just script something to
generate the PDF, it would need to run as the WO application user and
run headless. In my searching I have only found windows based
solutions, or converters that strip out the formatting. Has anyone
ever done anything like this with WebObjects on Mac OS X, or have any
suggestions.
In theory, you could use AppleScript to print the MeSsWord document to
PDF on OS X from the GUI.
As for using Java to convert MSWord to PDF, good luck: the format is
undocumented, so the best company to do it would be MS themselves, but
given their stance on Java, I wouldn't hold my breath for that.
sacha
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