RE: [PHP-WIN] OLE/COM stuff - let's have some fun with Word and Acrobat!

I feel obliged... So here are my two pence: If I were you, I would see if an html format could work instead of the PDF, the transformation: word->html is easy to do in COM. But if you really need a PDF, I doubt that the PDFmaker functionality exists as a COM object in word (maybe I'm wrong, check it). Otherwise, if your word doc is not complicated, you may be able to use the pdflib function to write the document from its text form directly to PDF... Come to think of it, that was an half penny advise ;) Alain Message from Alain Samoun alain@samoun.com HEAR ME>> http://pagoo.com/signature/alain -----Original Message----- From: Asendorf, John [mailto:JAsendorf@lcounty.com] Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 8:20 AM To: php-windows@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP-WIN] OLE/COM stuff - let's have some fun with Word and Acrobat! Hello all, I'm not much of a programmer, let that be said. I have a need for coworkers to be able to upload a Word file, then have PHP turn it into a renamed Acrobat file. Then have PHP make pages and query an index of the files. As far as uploading the Word file, querying the index and spitting out the results... I've got that, no problem. What I don't have is the whole PDF making thing. I'm guessing that with COM I could open those Word files and have them saved using the PDFmaker function in Word. They don't need to be anything fancy, and all of the documents are very standard 8 1/2 x 11 text documents. Alain, I know you watch this group. If it wasn't for your article on PHPBuilder, I wouldn't have dreamed this impossible, so you have an obligation to add your two cents! :) Thanks in advance everyone. John --------------------- Founder and Only Member of The 'What Kind of Idiot Uses PHP with IIS with Oracle on NT?' Consortium John Asendorf - jasendorf@lcounty.com Web Applications Developer http://www.lcounty.com - NEW FEATURES ADDED DAILY! Licking County, Ohio, USA 740-349-3631 -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-windows-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-windows-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net