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    DOC to PDF with PHP

    is this possible and does anyone know of a working demo/example i could view. this could save us from purchasing Acrobat.

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    would installing a free .pdf printer driver on all required client PCs be an acceptable solution? (e.g. http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp)? you'd just pick "cutepdf printer" when printing documents, and it'd save the output as a .pdf

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    I believe OpenOffice.org can save files as PDF, as well as being able to read DOCs. That PDF printer thingy sounds interesting though...
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    Quote Originally Posted by mike_w
    I believe OpenOffice.org can save files as PDF, as well as being able to read DOCs. That PDF printer thingy sounds interesting though...
    openoffice can do, but most people are reluctant to install an entire alternate office suite, especially for multiple users.

    cutepdf is a small front-end to the open-source ghostscript tools - it provides the "save as" dialogue box, and performs the appropriate voodoo to send a PostScript printout file (which windows can do normally) into the right bits of GS. the output will be identical to what OOo does, assuming you print an identical document

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    PDF Creator does the job as a Windows printer solution -> http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vini
    is this possible and does anyone know of a working demo/example i could view. this could save us from purchasing Acrobat.
    I believe Hwulex from Xaprief would be your man for the job.
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    ive tried cutepdf today, works well, just would like people to be able to upload a doc to a page on the intranet and have it come back to them with a pdf, just to give myself a 'clever image'

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    Quote Originally Posted by Iain
    PDF Creator does the job as a Windows printer solution -> http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
    this might be a cool tool, could presumably share it thus giving everyone access.

    damn that would be too cool for school, if thats the case.

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