Is antiword any better? I use it to look at the plain text, but haven't used its postscript generation.
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Matt Hyne wrote: > Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 18:16:19 +1000 > From: Matt Hyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: 'Jan Schmidt' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 'slug' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: [SLUG] WORD (.doc) to PDF under Linux > > > 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 > -- No added Sugar. Not tested on animals. If irritation occurs, discontinue use. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew McNaughton In Sydney Working on a Product Recommender System [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile: +61 422 753 792 http://staff.scoop.co.nz/andrew/cv.doc -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
