.doc to .pdf converter for linux

[avizen9]

HI
can we convert windows .doc file into .pdf? is there any free software available? or require to get license version for this, i have never tried this,

i am usgin redhat Enterprise and aim to conver .doc to .pdf for printing purpose. please reply me if someone have any good suggesion, thanks in advance.

[Karl Rohwedder]

Perhaps you can use OpenOffice for this, either interactively or via the -pt (printer) option to 'print' to a file.

regards Kalle

[avizen9]

hi i am aware that i can print through open office, but since my production is using specific pritners and there is some issue with priting to print .doc file and printer is not fully supporting .doc file its supporting .pdf corretly, so i would like to covert all .doc to .pdf and then need to print.

i have done this in hpux,having license small s/w but linux i want to know first if we can do without license s/w (i can save some $$$ for my company :)if really no choise then i will buy the license s/w for this
advice if you have any other clue on this, thanks,

[melvyn burnard]

we use this:
http://www.amyuni.com/en/enduser/pdfconverter/features.html
but it appears to be only for windoze

[dirk dierickx]

try using catdoc, it will convert word files to plain text. when you have a plain text file, you can convert it to pdf (those tools should be standard on your linux distro).

catdoc site:
http://www.wagner.pp.ru/~vitus/software/catdoc/

[Rob Leadbeater]

Hi,

Do you have to do all the work on Linux ?

If not, you could use Windows to print out to a file using a PostScript print driver, then convert PS to PDF on Linux for which there are lots of freely available tools.

Cheers,

Rob

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Open office writer can be used interactively to convert .doc to .pdf. This can also probably be done with a shell script.

Cost: $0.

SEP

[avizen9]

you are right steven,
we can use open office for this, i had tried and its looks ok

thanks to all for your help here.

[avizen9]

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