On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 7:32 AM, donanik duck <nald...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> HOWEVER, there are quite a few RTF->PDF converters, several available at no
> charge.
>
> I guess you' re talking about tools and not APIs. I already have mentioned
> the conversion has to be made programmaticaly. I also have mentioned my
> application has to be portable and not coupled with a specific OS like
> Windows or Linux. If you are talking about APIs at no charge that can make
> the conversion, please name them I' d be very interested.
>
> Are you making the point that your organization rejects an external
> executable, but would be OK with a library?
>
> Well, yes. With a library you just import it to your Project and use it.
> Then it is compiled along with the rest of your project and delivered to
> your customer with no extra actions. Whereas with the openOffice solution,
> our customer will have to install openOffice.org as well in the same machine
> that will host our application and make sure the openOffice.org service is
> always running in order for our application to be functional (Right? Or,
> have I misunderstood something here?).
> Let aside the fact that having a whole project (openOffice.org) running
> just to be able to use a small port of its capabilities (document
> conversion) doesn' t exactly seem so good, at list to me.
>
>
I understand your description. While my own experience makes me chuckle at
"[w]ith a library you just import it to your Project and use it ...", I
recognize the ideal. In any case, I can reasonably confidently report to
you that what you're after isn't available: there's no nicely-packaged
Java-coded RTF->PDF (or DOC->PDF ...) library. I know the alternatives are
far less convenient for you. Similarly, as silly as it is to launch
OpenOffice or Word itself just to achieve such an apparently straightforward
result, I leave it to you to decide whether it's even sillier not to achieve
your goal at all.
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