RE: AbiWord - .doc to pdf command line conversion

This could be for any file. Specifically, we want to be able to convert
uploaded resumes to pdf for the client. Actually, the files could be
Word files or .txt files, though 95% of them will be Word files.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dom Lachowicz [mailto:domlachowicz@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 2:30 PM
To: Scott Prelewicz; abiword-user@abisource.com
Subject: Re: AbiWord - .doc to pdf command line conversion

Is this for just 1-2 files in particular, or any Word
file?

--- Scott Prelewicz <scottp@noein.com> wrote:

>
> Hello All,
>
> I am trying to convert .doc files to .pdf
> programmatically. With help
> from those on IRC, I've managed to make some
> progress on this however I
> am getting stuck at the error below while trying to
> test on the command
> line interface.
>
> I am not familiar with AbiWord much, a newbie, but
> I'm thinking it's
> possibly an installation issue? Correct? And if so,
> what should I do? :)
>
> Running AbiWord 2.4 on OpenBSD 3.6.
>
>
>
> >> abiword --to=/tmp/foo.pdf /tmp/bar.doc
>
> (abiword:14375): libgsf:msole-CRITICAL **:
> ole_get_block: assertion
> `block < ole->info->max_block' failed
>
> ** (abiword:14375): WARNING **: failed request with
> status 1030
> Aborted
>
>
>
>
> /tmp/foo.pdf DOES get created, however it is a zero
> length file unable
> to be read by Acrobat reader. The test doc is a
> simple one sentence Word
> document.
>
> Thank you for any help,
>
> Scott
>
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Received on Tue Jun 6 20:31:31 2006