Word to PDF Conversion

[son_t]

Hello

Could someone give me pointers if this subject has been discussed before or help me out otherwise.

I am using OO on Solaris (10) to convert MS Word documents to PDF.

Currently I am using OO version 1.1.5 using this command:
/opt/OpenOffice.org1.1.5/soffice -display :5.0 -headless -pt lw

In other words I am using OO to open up a word document (on a virtual display) and sending it to a Postscript printer. With the printer output file I use GhostScript (ps2pdf) to generate the PDF.

The problem I am having is that these process works sometimes and not others and hence I would like to find another way of converting Word (or anyother OO) documents to PDF.

I found this document outlining a conversion of Word to PDF using the OO API. But unfortunately this is only on the Windows platform:
http://www.wynia.org/wordpress/word-to-pdf-converter-in-php-word2pdf/

In short, how do I go about achieving the same effects for a UNIX platform using the OO's API. Where do I begin? Any pointers would be appreciated.

Regards

[SergeM]

See :
How to convert Word -> PDF from the command line http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=3772
Error exporting to PDF (Java) http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=29664&highlight=
Export selection to PDF in landscape mode? http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=28408
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=4998
Export a document from OpenOffice writer as Acrobat http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=12922&highlight=
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[son_t]

Thanks for your pointers.

I mananged to get the macro code from the first link to work. Initially I got the same exception error as the first reply, but using the full path of the document I wanted to convert fixed the problem.

In the meantime I found this sourceforge project PHP DocWriter, but haven't had time to look at it. Might be useful to someone else reading here:
http://phpdocwriter.sourceforge.net/links.php?lang=en

Regards