[imp] Server side PDF conversion

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von "Prieto Martinez, Javier" <javier.prieto.exts at juntadeandalucia.es>:

> I have a Horde webmail server, and I'd like it to convert Office file
> attachments to PDF files using a copy of Openoffice installed in the web
> server, so they can be read from Linux terminals. My idea is to add a new
> button to IMP, which launches a command-line Openoffice conversion macro,
> which generates the PDF file, and shows it on the user browser.

Don't know if that helps, but we already have an OpenOffice MIME viewer 
that converts OpenOffice documents to HTML using OpenOffice's XSLT 
scripts. It might be easier to convert this HTML code to PDF.

> Before I start coding, has anybody already done that? I've seen many posts
> about batch file conversion in Openoffice forums (as
> http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=3772
> <http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=3772&postdays=0&postorder=a
> sc&start=0> &postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0), by I don't find no one that
> covers the possibility of launching it from a PHP server srcript.

Jan.

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