On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 03:00:53PM +1000, Gary Menzel wrote:

> The key here is "of different types".
>  The likelihood of getting something that can take *any* document type is 
> very low.
>  If you wanted to install OFFICE on your server - then you could handle 
> printing those to a PDF through sets of COM calls. 

Ewww. Nasty. Office is bad enough standalone, but on a server? Aside from the
licensing issue and the bloat there's the multithreading to consider.

Better to use something like activePDF's DocConverter product. It'll 
convert any one of over 200 formats to PDF.

> Then you could use 
> something like ActivePDF to concat the PDF documents.

Yup.

So DocConverter + Server Toolkit should do what you're after.
But it'll cost up to $2,400 USD to do so.

Tools to do PDF merging are quite common, the conversion ones
less so. It might be possible to avoid the $1,500 price tag
of DocConverter but you'd have to strictly specify what 
formats you can handle, and probably have one separate tool
for each one.

Cheers

Paul Haddon
Technical Services Manager
Formstar Print Technologies


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