I've played around with wvPS (and then ps2pdf) but wvPS pretty much destroys the formatting of most of the word files.
Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > <quote who="Matt Hyne"> > >> Does anyone know of a reliable way to convert a directory containing MS >> Word files to PDF files under Linux. There appears to be plenty of >> Windows tools but I cannot find many for Linux. > > You might care to try 'wvPDF' from the wv package > (http://wvware.sourceforge.net) > > It doesn't do very much by way of preserving formatting, but it might > suffice as a scriptable solution. > >> I want to write a script that will run a WORD->PDF conversion nightly so >> PDF files can be available from a website. > > for dude in *.doc; do > OUTFILE=${dude/.doc/.pdf} > wvPDF $dude $OUTFILE > done > > -- > Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Homer: "No TV and No Beer make Homer something something" Marge: "Go Crazy?" > Homer: "Don't mind if I do! aaaarrrarrgghar!" -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
