[thelist] PDF generation

[Nick Van Eeckhout]

We're dealing with a similar problem. On our document view system, we 
convert any incoming .doc into a pdf (uploaded through a webfront). The 
program (in .net by a colleague) that is doing this is running as a 
service. In the program we open a word document by programmatically 
opening word and let it print then. The big problem on this one is that 
word sometimes hangs. I know of a component in openoffice that could do 
the same, but i haven't tried that yet.
We haven't found a way to directly convert a .doc to pdf without having 
to print it first (like the 2 suggested links : pdf995 and activepdf), 
like you can do with  .html.

Michael Harrington wrote:

>>We've got a client who's looking to have Office (Word) documents
>>converted to pdf files.  The resulting pdf's need to have passwords
>>attached to them.  Ideally what we're looking to do is provide a web
>>front end which the client could use to upload the office documents.
>>We'd then programmatically (ideally using VB.net or C#) convert them to
>>.pdf's, adding the security features.  Could anyone suggest products for
>>doing the conversion/manipulation?
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>Look at PDF995 at http://www.pdf995.com/ .
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