> > Anyone know of a why to do this in Perl? I want to create a web interface > > where you upload a Word/Excel document and downloaded a PDF version. > > Adobe provides a service that does exactly this, for a nominal fee. See > (http://cpdf.adobe.com). They handle Word, Excel, and a few other formats > directly, and their technique for handling other formats is for you to print to > a Postscript file and send them that. As for doing this yourself, I know there > are Perl packages for writing PDF, but I'm not sure about reading PS. Word and > Excel are Microsoft proprietary formats so I doubt you'll find any way to read > that reliably in Perl. If you have an Acrobat PDF Printer ddriver installed, you could change the printer on the program and print to that via the PDF Printer. There's been discussion on the list over the past few days about printer related things so that might be of help too. - Ron _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/perl-win32-users
