* We used a not very loaded Win2k server, w/o CF to do this
* A simple asp page that downloads a word doc (also works with html/rtf)
passes as a url
* opens it in a MS word 2000 object
* prints it to a postscript printer that is mounted to write to a file
* then the asp page runs ghostscript to do a ps2pdf conversion
* the asp page returns the pdf-file
Such a service wouldn't take any higher load, but it works.
Then a cf file could just put the doc in a directory and pass the URL in
an CFFTP request to do this, a pdf file is returned.
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| -----Original Message-----
| From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 18:03
| To: CF-Talk
| Subject: Re: Convert file to PostScript file on server?
|
| John Burns wrote:
|
| > I'm looking at the Adobe Acrobat (Distiller) SDK
| documentation and it
| > has some command prompt utilities for converting a .ps to .pdf
| > automatically.
|
| GhostScript can do that too.
|
|
| > I'm curious if anyone knows of some way from CF to read in
| a file and
| > "print" it to a .ps so that I could then send that .ps into the
| > Acrobat command-prompt function and create a PDF on the fly.
| > Or, if anyone knows of a free way to allow Office document
| conversion
| > to PDF without a lot of problems _or cost_ let me know.
| Preferably,
| > I'd like the solution to work on Linux servers with MX 6.1.
|
| Why not give the people that have to use this OpenOffice on
| their desktop?
|
| Jochem
|
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| When you don't want to be surprised by the revolution
| organize one yourself
| - Loesje
|
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