Convert Word .doc to PDF without automating Word??

[joker77]

Hi,

Presumably this is a common enough problem, but I can't seem to find a neat way of doing it!

The problem is I need to convert a .doc file to a .pdf, on the server side - so I can't automate Word to do it (yes I'm aware it can be done with Office2007, which I have, but this app will have to be left unattended - this is not the designed use for Word).

Does anyone know of any open source tools that would be able to do this?

Thanks

 

[mskeel]

One option might be to simply install a PDF print driver such as PrimoPDF and then programmatically send your word doc to the PDF "printer".

This guy seems to have a good non-.Net way of doing things.

There's also an open source project that you might be able to pick apart and reuse the relevant components.

 

[Zorka]

Hi, joker77
try this product: http://alt-soft.com
Altsoft Xml2PDF converts xml files (in your case this is Word 2003) to PDF without Word automation