For Word documents AbiWord (http://www.abisource.com/) may be a viable alternative. It is a word processor but one that can be used from the command line to perform file conversions. The only caveat is that at it's heart, the .doc file filter was origionally conceived and written by the same developer who now contributes to OpenOffices Word filter. Admittedly, Abi's filter is maintained by different developers now but it is likely they share common traits.
Just as a side note, if you are looking for an exact copy of the Word document rendered into pdf then you could well be bound for faiure at one level or another. Often the same document will be rendered with slight differences by different versions of Word IME. Yours Mark B mingqiang yu wrote: > > What I have been using is the method Mark mentioned earlier: > > http://www.artofsolving.com/opensource/jodconverter > > Overall, it works very well except for some microsoft auto-added > bullets. But the problem resides on openoffice because this tool uses > openoffice. I may have to go to openoffice's forum to see if I can > find any help. > > Ming > > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 3:23 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> Maybe What I say will not be much useful for you but I tryed do that with >> no >> results. >> My solution was to draw MS office docs to PNG format and display them. >> >> If you would be so kind and tell me how you convert MS documents to PDF I >> would be very pleased. >> >> Thank you, >> >> >> W dniu 02-03-2010 17:37, mingqiang yu pisze: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> After some research and testing of the possible ways of converting >>> Microsoft office document to pdf, I'm wondering that if anyone has >>> done this conversion using Apache's POI. How reliable is it? >>> >>> I really appreciate your help! >>> >>> Ming >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Microsoft-office-document-to-pdf-conversion-question-tp27758046p27764843.html Sent from the POI - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
