[Resolved] Converting a Word file to a PDF file...

zakfox1986

I'm wanting to have a form that uploads a word file, and then converts the file to a PDF file. I would like to do this with PHP, if possible, so the big question..."Is this possible???" If so how should I go about doing this? Is there a tutorial out there?

Thanks!

Zak!

BTW: If you're wondering, I did some brief searching both on Google, PHP.net, and this forum, but didn't really find anything...

dalecosp

http://wvware.sourceforge.net

Not a PHP solution, but I was fairly impressed, and, of course, if you can run it on your server you can call it and manage it's output via PHP....

zakfox1986

Ok, I had in my mind for some reason that it was possible with PHP. Anyway, I'll deffinitly check this out and see what I think. I really appreciate your help very, very much!

Thanks!

Zak

dalecosp

Originally posted by zakfox1986
Ok, I had in my mind for some reason that it was possible with PHP.

Well, I'm not saying it's not, but I'm not aware of any builtins to a "stock" PHP [whatever that is] that decode Word docs. Partly, perhaps, because it's such a moving target. (We don't wanna get me started on that subject). Gotta wonder about legal issues with those um, people up there....

OTOH, It's not difficult to produce PDF's natively, as long as Merz's PDFLib support is compiled in (see here).

Anyway, I'll deffinitly check this out and see what I think. I really appreciate your help very, very much!

Thanks!

Zak

You are certainly welcome. 🙂