Hi,
Are there any .doc to pdf and html comverter library available in Ruby?
Thanks in advance,
Invincible
On 2/18/07, Invincible C. [email protected] wrote:
Hi,
Are there any .doc to pdf and html comverter library available in Ruby?
Thanks in advance,
Invincible
a quick search of the ruby kitchen sink (http://rubykitchensink.ca/)
referred me to this:
Hi Jason,
Yes pdf-writer exists. but what I am looking at is some library/plugin
which
takes as input, a word doc and using may be pdf-writer generates a pdf
document.
-Invincible
On 2/18/07, Jason M. [email protected] wrote:
-Invincible
Does this help any?
http://www.curioso.org/2004/11/05/word2postscript/#more-65
On 2/18/07, Jason M. [email protected] wrote:
document.
-Invincible
Ack. I’ll give up until my wife comes back home. Heh.
On 2/18/07, Invincible C. [email protected] wrote:
Hi Jason,
Yes pdf-writer exists. but what I am looking at is some library/plugin
which
takes as input, a word doc and using may be pdf-writer generates a pdf
document.-Invincible
Ah yes, sorry, I was distracted by my daughter so I didn’t read your
original email correctly. My apologies.
ok so the link says that first convert doc to postscript and then figure
out
how to convert postscript to pdf.
On searching I found another solution which requires openoffice and
dblatex
to be installed. I am figuring them out if they are feasible…
Following steps would be required for the doc to pdf conversion,
- Install open office
- Convert Microsoft Word to Docbook XML using Ruby and OpenOffice
http://www.juretta.com/log/2006/08/10/convert_microsoft_word_to_docbook_xml_using_ruby_and_openoffice/ - Convert Docbook XML to pdf using http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/.
http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/
http://developer.skolelinux.no/itil/Makefile
Success converting wiki page to PDF
Jason, on reading the code, looks like the document is being read and
being
printed to a “Apache pdf” file.
The script is referring to Win32,Win32::API,Win32::OLE …does that mean
it
will work only on Windows?
-Invincible
Here. Sorry for being lazy.
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/vframe.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/238888?238688-239295
To any whom might read this: PLUG of the adopt-a-newbie thread, if you
feel like you’re not comfortable with Ruby yet this might help YOU!
Aur S.
I have got through following,
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/165458
Was there any other thread as well?
-Invincible.
I recall something VERY similar being discussed on the list a few days
ago, have a search 
Aur, Thanks for the link!
Regards
Jatinder
On 2/18/07, Invincible C. [email protected] wrote:
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/165458
I recall something VERY similar being discussed on the list a few days
ago, have a search
Ok, now that I’ve got a moment, here’s an alternative using openoffice
instead of MS Office. It’s a nice printer friendly page as well.
apparently it works on .doc files made in office versions back through
'97.
I dunno if that’d be a better fit than the approach laid out by aur, but
hey, I wanted to bring a real answer to the table
You might look at http://www.artofsolving.com/opensource/jodconverter
which uses the OpenOffice API to run document conversions through
it. I used it in a project last year, and it seems to work quite
well on Linux. Since it runs as a web service, calling out to it
from Ruby is straightforward.
Hugh
I hope it works for Microsoft 2000 and onwards as well.
btw I found a solution yesterday by using pdfcreator free utility which
basically creats a virtual printer and lets me print my word doccument
to
the virtual printer which is nothing but a pdf target.
However this appraoch has following limitations,
- Works only on Windows machine.
I am going to try out openoffice solution and see if it fits my needs.
I appreciate all your help.
Thanks
Invincible
Hi Hugh,
Thanks for the link. the project is certainly worth a watch.
but I would not like to have an extra overhead of taking care of
installing
java, instead now I am looking for ruby integrations with openoffice
api’s.
Openoffice Api’s have been integrated with Java and C++, but not with
Ruby
yet. Some discussions have happened before on ruby talk for providing
this
integration,
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/92532 …
but
with no result :(.
On the way I came across, ooo4r which has not been updated for a while
now.
http://rubyforge.org/projects/ooo4r/
Has anyone worked with accessing/modifying/converting documents of
openoffice programmatically from Ruby?
-Invincible