[thelist] word to pdf convertor

Simon Perry thelist at si-designs.co.uk
Thu Jul 15 08:40:55 CDT 2004


David Dorward wrote:

> On 15 Jul 2004, at 13:35, alex beston wrote:
>
>> can anyone recommend a good opensource / shareware word to pdf 
>> convertor? batch conversions would be nice aswell ...
>
>
> Not interested in freeware then? >:)
>
> On the opensource side, check out OpenOffice. 
> <http://www.openoffice.org/>
>
> I guess (I'm at the office, so I don't have OO here - the Mac version 
> isn't very good yet) that 
> <http://www.bytebot.net/openoffice/faq.html#Package6> or 
> <http://ooomacros.org/user.php#95532> will handle the batch side of 
> things.

You may not even need macros, once you have created a "PDF printer" in 
openoffice.org you can convert files via the shell (command line).

/usr/bin/openoffice -pt "PDF converter" example.doc

The above will output example.pdf to the folder you specified when 
setting up the "PDF printer"

Simon


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