"Ted Hilts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This may sound dumb but there is a good reason for asking and so far I > cannot find an answer. I need to convert MS word documents to > pictures. [snip]
Covert the Word documents to PDF. You can either buy the tools from Adobe, or, if you have a Linux box available on the same network, you can setup a workaround. Setup a printer on the Windows box that uses the one of the HP Laserjet PS drivers. Configure the print settings to "Print to File". This will create a Postscript file that's easily convertable to PDF. When you print using this printer, save the file onto the Linux box with an extension of ".ps". Then login to the Linux box and run "ps2pdf" on the file. If you expect to do this a lot, then drop the PS files into a specific directory on the Linux box and setup a cron job and a shell script to automate the conversion. Tony -- Anthony E. Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> PGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D AOL/Yahoo Chat: TonyG05 Linux. The choice of a GNU Generation <http://www.linux.org/> They contain fonts of other languages. The picture gets > around the fact that those receiving the information do not have to > install the appropriate fonts. I can convert the document to html but > it appears that unless the fonts are all installed on each machine using > a browser the foreign text is converted to English characters. An of > course if pictures of the text are used it also obviates the problem > those using Linux would experience. I realize that I could print out > the pages and use a scanner but this is way too slow for the large > amount of work. So I need to create a pictures file directly from the > word document. There would be a problem because I think MS Word has > imbedded controls. But I think I could get away with some kind of cut > and paste. This means I would have to past into some kind of picture > processor that would accept the text without attempting to format it and > treat is as text. > > Any ideas? > > Bye - thanks_TED > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
