<quote who="Matt Hyne">

> Does anyone know of a reliable way to convert a directory containing MS
> Word files to PDF files under Linux.  There appears to be plenty of
> Windows tools but I cannot find many for Linux.

You might care to try 'wvPDF' from the wv package
(http://wvware.sourceforge.net)

It doesn't do very much by way of preserving formatting, but it might
suffice as a scriptable solution.

> I want to write a script that will run a WORD->PDF conversion nightly so
> PDF files can be available from a website.

for dude in *.doc; do
  OUTFILE=${dude/.doc/.pdf}
  wvPDF $dude $OUTFILE
done

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