Andrew McLean wrote: > Steve Holden wrote: > >>If that *isn't* satisfactory then a modest investment in Adobe >>Acrobat/Distiller plus the use of Python's scripting facilities to >>direct the conversion would be preferable to spending a huge amount of >>time writing a hand-crafted solution. > > > An alternative to Adobe Distiller (part of Acrobat) is PDFCreator > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ > > which is free. This installs as a Windows printer (using GhostScript as > a backend to generate PDFs). It should be relatively straightforward to > use Python scripting to drive Word to "print" documents to the > PDFCreator pseudo-printer.
Nice one, thanks for that, I'd missed it. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://holdenweb.blogspot.com Recent Ramblings http://del.icio.us/steve.holden -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
