On Friday 25 February 2005 03:08 pm, Rory Browne wrote: > > Run PHP on a windows platform that has MSWord and the PDF printing > > libraries installed. Use PHP's COM support to load an MSWord object and > > see if you can get it to load the word document and print it out as a PDF > > file. Once it is printed to the file, you can use PHP to read the file > > and do whatever is needed from here. > > That's pretty much one of my suggestions, although I considered it > only a suitable/practical solution if s/he was running a windows box > anyway. I wouldn't take on the pain, and cost of switching to a > windows box, solely for the sake of converting word docs. > > > I've never tried it with PHP, but with experimentation and research you > > should be able to make it work. I know that where I work we convert MS > > Word, Excel, and other kinds of documents to PDFs automatically using > > this method, though I think the appliaction than controls everything is > > written in C. > > I'd like to see the code that you use for that. The COM Methods would > be independent of the language used. Would you be allowed to share it > with us? > > > Parsing and MSWord file manually with images et al, then reliably > > converting it to a PDF document... Yikes, if anyone can do this, you're > > my god. > > Check out my initial response to this post. wvWare can reliably > convert a word doc with images. It falls down a bit, when it comes to > embedded charts, or something like that or so I've heard. > > It seems like the staroffice/openoffice, and wvware devs, (and anyone > else who has created a word doc importer) have become your god(s). > > > Best of luck, let us know what solution you come up with. > > > > -KBear > > > > Original Message: > > > > Hi there, > > > > How can I convert a Word file (*.doc) to PDF file? Are there any > > libraries available? > > > > Can you give me some hint how can I do that? > > > > Thanks. > > > > Kevin. > > Hi, Coming late into this thread but you could try http://doc2pdf.sourceforge.net/ and see if it might fit your needs. Hth, Andre -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
