doc to pdf

pedrosan · 04-28-2004, 10:49 PM

Hy

I am looking for a software with the following features:
- convert doc files to pdf
- allow bookmarks insertion into the pdf file
- allow command lines use
- works on both unix and windows OS (optionnal)

Does anybody know where I could find one?

Thanks for your help.

PEDROSAN

ehawk · 04-28-2004, 11:17 PM

Doesn't acroread allow for all these things?

Look at "man convert" I thought it could handle some doc formats and convert to many other formats, including pdf

|2ainman · 04-28-2004, 11:29 PM

Open Office has the option to export most of its formats to pdf, including doc. As far as the other features go, dunno.

ehawk · 04-29-2004, 12:10 AM

If you have nothing fancy in your Word docs, it can be handled by Open Office without too much mangling.

mbegovic · 04-29-2004, 12:22 AM

In my experience OpenOffice.org 1.1 screws it up. Missing spaces and indents and so on.

pedrosan · 04-29-2004, 12:37 AM

I think that Acrobat Reader can't convert files. It is only a reader. That's how Adobe spread PDF. They give the reader for free (so everyone can use their format) and they sell the writers.

And "man convert" tells me that I have no "convert" command in my shell.

PEDROSAN

mbegovic · 04-29-2004, 12:44 AM

No, acroread definitely can't convert files. That's what Adobe Acrobat Pro is for (not available for Linux and terribly overpriced for Windows). Have you tried it with OpenOffice yet? Like I said, it's made some conversion mistakes for me, but it does convert the files.

pedrosan · 04-29-2004, 12:48 AM

I will try with OO but I'm not sure it allows bookmarks, does it?

PEDROSAN

pedrosan · 04-29-2004, 01:42 AM

I just tried OO. The PDF exported looks great but I can't add bookmarks to it.

Any other suggestion?

PEDROSAN