From: Invincible Code Date: 2007-02-19T02:52:56+09:00 Subject: Re: Doc to PDF/HTML converter plugins available in Ruby? ------=_Part_18882_10182929.1171821172960 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline ok so the link says that first convert doc to postscript and then figure out how to convert postscript to pdf. On searching I found another solution which requires openoffice and dblatex to be installed. I am figuring them out if they are feasible.. Following steps would be required for the doc to pdf conversion, 1. Install open office 2. Convert Microsoft Word to Docbook XML using Ruby and OpenOffice http://www.juretta.com/log/2006/08/10/convert_microsoft_word_to_docbook_xml_using_ruby_and_openoffice/ 3. Convert Docbook XML to pdf using http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/. http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/ http://developer.skolelinux.no/itil/Makefile http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2006/05/msg00017.html Jason, on reading the code, looks like the document is being read and being printed to a "Apache pdf" file. The script is referring to Win32,Win32::API,Win32::OLE ...does that mean it will work only on Windows? -Invincible On 2/18/07, Jason Mayer wrote: > > On 2/18/07, Jason Mayer wrote: > > > > On 2/18/07, Jason Mayer wrote: > > > > > > On 2/18/07, Invincible Code wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi Jason, > > > > > > > > Yes pdf-writer exists. but what I am looking at is some > library/plugin > > > > which > > > > takes as input, a word doc and using may be pdf-writer generates a > pdf > > > > document. > > > > > > > > > > > > -Invincible > > > > > Ack. I'll give up until my wife comes back home. Heh. > ------=_Part_18882_10182929.1171821172960--