doc2pdf

[Katrin Wolf]

Am Mittwoch, 9. März 2005 14:57 schrieb Bernhard:
> For several special reasons I have to convert Microsoft Word documents
> into the pdf-format. I know that this task is very easy if I had access
> for example to openoffice. However, on the computer I have to do this
> task no X is installed (and won't be installed as well). So anyone knows
> how to convert a doc to a pdf file using the shell?

There is a little shell tool called "antiword", which is in the universe 
repository of Ubuntu. This tool converts doc-files to ps-files, which you can 
easily convert to pdf with ps2pdf. In the latest version antiword can create 
pdfs itself, but I don't know if this version is already in the ubuntu 
repository.

Cheers
Katrin

P.S: I wrote myself a little script using antiword to display doc-files 
attached on emails - so I needn't start up OO for just viewing some docs 
(it's kinda slow on my machine) ...
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