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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