Question for Pro

[abnfire]

can i convert microsoft word document to pdf document using php? is there a pre build calsses to do that or function to do that?
which functions do i need to know in order to do this?

any idea pro?

[tomhath]

I think its very hard to convert them. You can get a few translated for free here, but normally they charge a small fee for the service:

http://createpdf.adobe.com/index.pl/126651336.47573?BP=IE

[majik-sheff]

It is possible, but it's NOT easy. To get PHP to read a Word document, you'll first need to be running PHP on a Windows box that has MSOffice installed. Having satisfied that, you'll need PDFlib installed into PHP. If you've managed to satisfy all of those requirements, you can use the COM functions of PHP to open the Word document, and the PDFlib functions to create a document from it. I make this last step sound simple. It isn't.

If you are using this for your own internal purposes, you might look into using GhostScript to to conversions of print captures.