Re: Conversion software doc to pdf

On 2007-06-03, mowsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mowsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

i'm wondering if there is a freely available console tool to
conert .doc files into .pdf.


It looks like Abiword can print from the command line, so I suppose you
could print to a postscript file (abiword foo.doc --print=foo.ps) and then
convert the resulting file to pdf, or maybe it's possible to print
directly to cups-pdf and get something palatable.

I haven't tried any of this myself (well, I just attempted printing a
doc file to a ps file from the command line, and it worked well, but
there were no graphics in the doc file, and a quick google suggests
there might be problems getting the graphics right). I've never used
cups-pdf.
.

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