Realtor Leader wrote:
I would like a tool (eventually to be used online) that could convert MS =You're not going to find it easy.
Word documents into PDF files. I've reviewed CPAN and was surprised to =
not find any modules that would accomplish this task. Can anybody =
provide guidance to me on how I could produce a module to accomplish =
this? I understand only generally what it would involve, and I would =
eventually like to put it on CPAN for use by everyone.
To convert a document from Word format to PDF, you need something that can interpret the Word format.
ie you need to have either MS Word, or OpenOffice, or some other office package where the developers have spent long, sleepless nights deciphering MS's binary format.
OpenOffice is arguably the best at interpreting MS's Word format. But if you have OpenOffice, it already has built-in PDF creation.
Having said that, I remember ( from installing Mimedefang - search on Google for it ) that there is something that converts Word documents to HTML. From memory it is OK for text only, but mangles other stuff. You could convert from Word to HTML and then from HTML to PDF ( I've also seen things that do this ).
More to the point, however, is convincing people to covert their Word documents to OpenOffice's XML format.
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