Re: Converting MSWord Docs to PDF

2006-10-13 Thread Theerasak Photha
On 10/13/06, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's how the various free "PDF printer drivers" for Windows work. > > > It might not even need Python. > > Not unless you're trying to automate the process somehow. Even a quick, crappy language like bash would do. -- Theerasak -- http://

Re: Converting MSWord Docs to PDF

2006-10-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2006-10-13, Theerasak Photha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11 Oct 2006 02:10:38 -0700, Ant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Theerasak Photha wrote: >> > On 10/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> ... >> > (La)TeX is the king of document processing, and does PDF. >> >> Except

Re: Converting MSWord Docs to PDF

2006-10-13 Thread Theerasak Photha
On 11 Oct 2006 02:10:38 -0700, Ant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Theerasak Photha wrote: > > On 10/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > > (La)TeX is the king of document processing, and does PDF. > > Except that the OP want's to print Word documents as PDF. LaTeX is > good,

Re: Converting MSWord Docs to PDF

2006-10-11 Thread Ant
Theerasak Photha wrote: > On 10/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > (La)TeX is the king of document processing, and does PDF. Except that the OP want's to print Word documents as PDF. LaTeX is good, granted, but just try converting LaTeX documents to Word or vice versa... A

Re: Converting MSWord Docs to PDF

2006-10-11 Thread Steve Holden
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. >

Re: Converting MSWord Docs to PDF

2006-10-11 Thread Theerasak Photha
On 10/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >An alternative to Adobe Distiller (part of Acrobat) is PDFCreator > > > yeah, i am actually just barely testing it out and so far it has > given me very good results, thanks for the tip. See also: http://www.pytex.org (La)TeX is the ki

RE: Converting MSWord Docs to PDF

2006-10-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sybren Stuvel wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] enlightened us with: > >is it possible to convert MSword docs into PDF format? > > > Yes, it is. check out http://www.stuvel.eu/ooo-python#header3. It's > about converting Excel to PDF, but it equally applies to MSWord. thank you very much this will greatl

Re: Converting MSWord Docs to PDF

2006-10-10 Thread Andrew McLean
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 Dist

Re: Converting MSWord Docs to PDF

2006-10-10 Thread Alan Franzoni
Il Tue, 10 Oct 2006 01:27:35 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: > is it possible to convert MSword docs into PDF format? > i told my future employer that i could, because i knew > of the COM scripting abilites that activePython had. > and i knew there was modules for PDF creation such as > repor

Re: Converting MSWord Docs to PDF

2006-10-10 Thread Steve Holden
Sybren Stuvel wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] enlightened us with: > >>is it possible to convert MSword docs into PDF format? > > > Yes, it is. check out http://www.stuvel.eu/ooo-python#header3. It's > about converting Excel to PDF, but it equally applies to MSWord. > However, this assumed perfect i

Re: Converting MSWord Docs to PDF

2006-10-10 Thread Sybren Stuvel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] enlightened us with: > is it possible to convert MSword docs into PDF format? Yes, it is. check out http://www.stuvel.eu/ooo-python#header3. It's about converting Excel to PDF, but it equally applies to MSWord. Sybren -- Sybren Stüvel Stüvel IT - http://www.stuvel.eu/ -- htt

Converting MSWord Docs to PDF

2006-10-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, this is my first message sent to the python-list, so forgive any irregularities. is it possible to convert MSword docs into PDF format? i told my future employer that i could, because i knew of the COM scripting abilites that activePython had. and i knew there was modules for PDF creation