Re: MS Word conversion to tiff

From: Ed Morton (morton_at_lsupcaemnt.com)
Date: 05/26/04 

Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 09:20:37 -0500

KenW wrote:
> Stephane: Thanks for suggesting wvware. wvware has many prerequisite
> products, and I'd prefer a simpler solution (unless that's as simple
> as it can get).
>
> Ed: Our customers send us Word files and we receive them on UNIX (and
> store and forward them, ...), so we need a UNIX product that converts
> those files without using a Windows product, and it must be
> command-line, not GUI. Is there a UNIX utility that will "print the
> file using a postscript drive"?

I think wvware is about as good as you're going to get. From their web
page, it looks like there's no prerequisite for the HTML conversion, and
there is a html2ps tool available (google for it) - you're trading a
prerequisite for a postrequisite, unless you can just live with the HTML
output, but maybe it's a simpler interface.

> If I run a filewatcher daemon on a Windows host (with NFS connections
> to UNIX files) looking for Word files, what Windows command will
> perform the conversion from Word to postscript?

You'd have to ask in a Windows NG.

        Ed.
> Ken

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