Re: MS Word to PDF
From: Daniel Kasak (dkasak_at_nusconsulting.com.au)
Date: 06/15/04
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 14:59:46 +1000 To: Realtor Leader <info@realtorleader.com>, beginners@perl.org
Realtor Leader wrote:
>I would like a tool (eventually to be used online) that could convert MS =
>Word documents into PDF files. I've reviewed CPAN and was surprised to =
>not find any modules that would accomplish this task. Can anybody =
>provide guidance to me on how I could produce a module to accomplish =
>this? I understand only generally what it would involve, and I would =
>eventually like to put it on CPAN for use by everyone.
>
>
You're not going to find it easy.
To convert a document from Word format to PDF, you need something that
can interpret the Word format.
ie you need to have either MS Word, or OpenOffice, or some other office
package where the developers have spent long, sleepless nights
deciphering MS's binary format.
OpenOffice is arguably the best at interpreting MS's Word format. But if
you have OpenOffice, it already has built-in PDF creation.
Having said that, I remember ( from installing Mimedefang - search on
Google for it ) that there is something that converts Word documents to
HTML. From memory it is OK for text only, but mangles other stuff. You
could convert from Word to HTML and then from HTML to PDF ( I've also
seen things that do this ).
More to the point, however, is convincing people to covert their Word
documents to OpenOffice's XML format.
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