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[David Krings]

Does OOo have command line capability? It can open doc files and save them 
right into PDF and OOo can run on Unix. Even if it works, it is still 
pretty ugly.

         David

At 02:16 PM 10/6/2006, you wrote:
>That sounds like a pain in the ass :-)  Only think I can think of is
>having a Windows machine somewhere that your Unix webserver ftp's the
>files to.  The Windows machine has a scheduled batch program or
>something that periodically checks a folder to see if any doc files are
>in there... runs something like this command line program to do the
>conversion - <http://www.softinterface.com/Convert-Doc/Convert-Doc.htm>
>- and then ftp's the resulting pdf back to your Unix server.  Obviously
>not ideal...
>-Rob
>
>Stephen Musgrave wrote:
> > I am hoping for some direction here, other efforts have come up
> > fruitless.  Thanks in advance!
> >
> > Here's what we need:
> >
> > We have files on a Unix web server in various formats, the foremost is
> > Word DOC.  We have a script that runs in PHP that gathers all of the
> > documents and creates a PDF document stuffs the files in there.  But
> > the problem is that we can't stuff a Word document into a PDF document
> > without first converting it to a PDF.  What I will need to be able to
> > do is covert that document via PHP or PHP's command line capability
> > (presumably using the exec() command).  We will then return control to
> > our compilation script, pull in the newly converted file and then
> > we're done.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Stephen Musgrave
> > *capellic
> >
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> >
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> > stephen at capellic.com <mailto:stephen at capellic.com>
> >
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