RE: [SLUG] WORD (.doc) to PDF under Linux

[Andrew McNaughton <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 <mhyne@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: 'Jan Schmidt' <thaytan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, 'slug' <slug@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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
>
> slug-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx 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                                  thaytan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
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