Send file to remote url

[Sam McKnight]

Because unix cannot read ms word files, I need to translate incoming word documents to a readable form like pdf. For conversion, I use the Adobe subscription service Create PDF Online. A file in a number of formats can be sent to the service, and a pdf file is returned.

Now, a new feature has been added. If I print to a supplied url, the service will process the file and return it to me as a pdf file. Instructions are given for printing with Windows computers, but none for unix.

I have tried to configure a printer with a remote url but without any satisfactory result. Does any one have any suggestions about how I could deal with this problem, or is there no way in hp-ux 11.11?

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Sam,

It would be useful to see the instructions you have received up to this point.

Most Internet sites block the commonly used printer ports.

There are actually ways to read your word documents native to HP-UX, with a bit of work.

Open office, designed for Linux is an open source product and can be compiled on Linux. Open office will read most word documents.

There are a number of format converters available for HP-UX and Linux. HP-UX has these converters here:

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/

Any fully installed Linux system tat includes open office could take these word documents straight from word format to PDF with little difficulty.

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[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Sam,

It would be useful to see the instructions you have received up to this point.

Most Internet sites block the commonly used printer ports.

There are actually ways to read your word documents native to HP-UX, with a bit of work.

Open office, designed for Linux is an open source product and can be compiled on Linux. Open office will read most word documents.

There are a number of format converters available for HP-UX and Linux. HP-UX has these converters here:

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/

Any fully installed Linux system that includes open office could take these word documents straight from word format to PDF with little difficulty.

SEP

[Sam McKnight]

Steven,

Thanks for your response.

I will try the format converters. I had tried wv about four years ago but did not find it to convert reliably. I use Island Write but have not found its format converter useful on current Word documents.

I am attaching the Adobe Create PDF instructions for setting up Create PDF as a printer. Using the printer process avoids having to open a browser to transfer a file to Adobe for converting to PDF. Converted files are returned as mail attachments or downloaded from the Adobe web site.

The process for setting up a printer seems to be similar to how I set up my network printer except that I had to enter an ip address rather than a url.

[Howard Marshall]

Hay,

Yes, open office will view word documents, excel, too but doesn't get some of the odder formatting correct. Stuff where fonts are converted to word art don't look exactly the same. If your not using that type of formatting though itâ s a great option.

You can also use ghost script to convert files to pdf format. There are several products out there that very much simplify the use of ghost script by creating a post script printer that dumps a pdf file and some of them even support unix platforms (pdf995) comes to mind but I don't know if they support hp-ux

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