> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Hal Burgiss > Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 1:06 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: PDF Converter on Linux/Redhat > > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 09:18:25AM -0400, Kenneth Goodwin wrote: > > > > MS Word will also convert most of the important stuff. > > Let's see ... if am not familiar with that one. How do you > script that > so it integrates with Apache and automatically converts > documents from > one type to another?
Well first of all, you are out of context here, that was in response to the statement that there were no Windows based programs that did ANY TO ANY file conversions. The definite one, available on most platforms, is Data Junction and it can be scripted to convert to/from most anything and run from a shell on any *NIX platform. But really clever people, like me, can actually get WORD to do this in it's limited fashion in an automated way using the proper tools. It is real slow so I dont recommend it at all, but it can be done. You can always add the calls to your PERL CGI-BIN functions to call the underlying data conversion scripts or you can run it as a backend process scanning a directory tree and processing and moving the files from an inbound to an outbound directory methodology. There are alot of tools out there to achieve this. Most for *nix systems have already been mentioned. You define a processing methodology, craft the scripts to implement the workflow calling the underlying programs to do the work. Settle on a naming convention - .txt, .ps, .pdf, .asc, .doc for your files and you can use that to drive the process correctly. In terms of Web Site, the person in question was not looking for an automated on the fly to/from conversion utility. As Far as I understood it, he wanted a automated system that would convert any file format into a PDF so his web site could display it in one standard format, namely PDF. Adobe Distiller Server provides that functionality as an Off the shelf solution, but you can craft up the equivalent with Perl or Shell wrappers around other functions and a cron based control script. If you want On the fly, you should look into XML based systems. There is a great deal of freeware in that area for converting ANYthing into XML and back again. SoftwareAG has entire document database based on that code that does exactly that. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
