From: Jeremy McAnally <jeremymcanally@...>
Date: 2006-10-30T21:32:40+09:00
Subject: Re: PDF-writer and MS word document

If you are on Mac, simply print to the Adobe PDF printer.
If you are on Windows, download something like PDF995 which creates a
PDF printer for you.
If you are on Linux, I don't think you have the printer option.
OpenOffice should be able to export a PDF, and you could figure a way
to finagle an API there somewhere most likely.

PDF::Writer is difficult because (to my knowledge) there is no way to
extract data from a Word file programmatically, with the exception of
perhaps using the application "antiword" to extract the text and then
using PDF::Writer to write that back.  Not your best option (because
formatting and such is lost), but it is an option.

--Jeremy

On 10/29/06, Li Chen <chen_li3@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I just wonder if anyone out there ever uses PDF::Writer to create a PDF
> file from a MS word document file. I can only create a PDF file if the
> file is in plain text format.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Li
>
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