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Re: Creating PDF from MS Word Document
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Re: Creating PDF from MS Word Document


  • Subject: Re: Creating PDF from MS Word Document
  • From: Ondra Cada <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 01:11:27 +0200

Albert,

On 18.5.2005, at 0:53, Sacha Mallais 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.

If it so happens the Cocoa support for Word formatting is sufficient for your needs (that is what TextEdit can do with a DOC), it is pretty easy to make a simple commandline tool to be called from the WO application.


Otherwise, I guess controlling Word through AppleScript would indeed be the best option.
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Ondra Čada
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 >Creating PDF from MS Word Document (From: "Albert Jagnow" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Creating PDF from MS Word Document (From: Sacha Mallais <email@hidden>)

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