Re: MS Word conversion to tiff

From: Ed Morton (morton_at_lsupcaemnt.com)
Date: 05/25/04 

Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 10:24:34 -0500

KenW wrote:
> Is there a utility or API that runs on UNIX (Solaris 8) that converts
> a Microsoft Word file to tiff or PDF?

One option is printing the Word document to a file using a postscript
drive, then you can run "ps2pdf", "ps2gif", "distill", or whatever you
want on UNIX. If you're really keen, you can create a daemon watching
some specific directory for PS files showing up so that when you "print"
to them as postscript from Word on a network drive, the daemon
automatically picks up that file and converts it to PDF or whatever else
you like.

        Ed.

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