Date sent: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 13:29:03 -0500 To: benno@sesgroup.net, Phil Harris <phil@wigwamweb.net> From: "Phillip J. Eby" <pje@telecommunity.com> Subject: Re: [Zope] MSWord Product... Copies to: magnus@vuab.net, zope@zope.org
At 05:01 AM 11/4/99 +1100, Ben Leslie wrote:
The results I have seen are reasonably good, probably not perfect though. If layout it critical I would suggesting converting to PDF using the Adobe Acrobat (unfortuntely this is quite expensive :( )
There is another way to do that. Print to file using a Postscript driver from Word, then load the result into GhostScript/GSView (free, open source) and generate a PDF. Voila. It's a bit less convenient than Acrobat, but for many files it actually runs faster than Acrobat.
And anyway the double step postscript->pdf is generally assumed produce the best results for Acrobat as well. The direct conversion word->acrobat is just convenient. Note also that if you want to access/catalog the pdf contents as well you could use an existing python product (not zope related), called prescript. I do not have the url handy at the moment, but it should easily be found on the python website (www.python.org) Rik