[ciapug] Converting docs to pdfs

[Renegade Muskrat]

Images can be converted to PDF using "convert" which i believe is part of
ImageMagick. Multi-image files (such as some TIFF files) will even be
converted to a multi-page PDF. The downside to convert is that it is very
slow and uses an obscene amount of memory (as in, to convert a 50 page TIFF
to PDF you should probably be running on a machine with at least 1 GB RAM,
maybe 2... i used a machine with 2 and it worked).

For plain text documents (notepad) you could probably convert the text to
PostScript, then convert that to PDF. For proprietary documents, i don't
know. I recently set up a web based document converter that could handle
Word documents; i believe it required wv to be installed to do the
translation.

At 08:43 AM 2/10/2004 -0600, you wrote:
>Would anyone have a recommendation on a script / library for converting
documents to PDF?
>
>My scenario involves a user uploading files that are allowed by the upload
script, in various formats, and after upload I want to convert those files
to PDF files that will be stored and then linked in a html page for download.
>
>Files types will be of two categories, images and text documents.
>Images Formats: jpeg, png, gif, bmp
>Text Formats: word .doc, word perfect, claris works, notepad, wordpad, ...
list of text document formats.
>
>
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