Distill Word Doc to PDF

[Michael F. March]

I use GSview for Windoze a couple of times a day for this and
it works GREAT.

> > Similarly, I have had success with saving the Word doc as HTML then
using
> > the Linux utility html2pdf to convert it.
> >
> > ~Jay
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Austin Godber wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 09:38:44PM -0700, AZ Pete wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I have a few MS Word docs that I need to distill into PDF documents.
> > > > I do not have the Adobe Acrobat Suite distiller software (WAY too
> > > > expensive).
> > > > Does anyone know of any freeware/shareware utilities that can take
an
> > > > MS Doc and distill it into PDF format.  Some of the documents are
text
> > > > only with minimal "fancy" formatting.  However, some of them have
> > > > embedded pictures, charts, fancy fonts & formatting that must be
> > > > preserved.
> > > >
> > > > Preferably I'd like the utility to run on a Linux platform, but I
also
> > > > have several Windows boxes at my disposal (98/2K/XP).
> > > >
> > > > Any help would be appreciated.
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Peter
> > >
> > > Well, you may try installing a PS printer driver on your Win box,
> printing
> > > to a PS file using that PS driver.  Then with the file (which should
be
> ps
> > > .. hopefully, this is always a nuisance for me in windows) you can
> > > convert from ps to pdf a variety of ways.  There is a UNIX command
line
> > > util called ps2pdf (maybe it works under cygwin).  There is also a web
> > > front end for ps2pdf at www.ps2pdf.com
> > >
> > > I have had some success with this method.  YMMV
> > >
> > >
> >
> > --
> > ~Jay
> >
> >
> >
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