Programatically Convert MS-Word to PDF

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Hi Lotus Gurus,

Our application generates MS-Word attachment, now our challenge is to convert MS-Word to PDF.

Is there any way to convert the same using Lotus script?

Many Thanks in advance.

Thanks,

Pervela Mallik Ram Sharma

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Subject: Programatically Convert MS-Word to PDF

I think doc conversion programmes can enable to quickly convert files. I use a doc converter driver found on the internet . Install it and it becomes a selectable converter option.Then you can convert docs to many forms in any program at all, including Adobe Acrobat . Just open a doc, select convert, and choice a form you want, then you can do pdf to word conversion and vice versa,the task will be finished in several seconds. if you haven’t found a good choice , you can have a try. best wishes. VB.NET Word: VB Tutorial to Convert Word to Other Formats in .NET Project

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Subject: RE: Programatically Convert MS-Word to PDF

Hi, Danny.As for myself, I have seldom tried to convert pdf to docs. I wonder have you ever worked it out? Do I need another 3rd party manual toolkit? When it comes PDF converting process, I have another question, I wonder have you ever tried to convert pdf to other image files before? As for myself, I am testing the related PDF to PNG converting, PDF to BMP converting , and PDF to JPG converting programs these days. Here are the online tutorials:

Do you have experience about it? Any suggestion will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Best regards,

Lee

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Subject: Programatically Convert MS-Word to PDF

Of course that can be done, at least on a client, assuming all the relevant software is present and properly configured.

First you think through the steps that are needed, and perform the steps manually while you write it down:

  1. Open Notes document

  2. Check if there is an attachment and if the filename is .doc or .docx

  3. Detach the Word document to a temporary folder in the file system

  4. Use a commandline tool like PDFCreator (http://www.pdfforge.org/content/create-pdf) to create a PDF of the Word document

Now you just write the Lotusscript code to do the same.

Piece of cake.

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Subject: RE: Programatically Convert MS-Word to PDF

Hi Karl,

Many Thanks for your advise.

Thanks,

P. Mallik Ram

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Subject: RE: Programatically Convert MS-Word to PDF

Alternatively, if you are using Word 2010 or later, you can just save as pdf.

Phil