If you needed to stay open source, you could probably wire something up with Apache Poi to handle the msft end of that and pdfbox to handle the pdf end (edit: I

If you needed to stay open source, you could probably wire something up with Apache Poi to handle the msft end of that and pdfbox to handle the pdf end (edit: I mean read the msft file with poi and write out equivalent info using pdfbox into a pdf). It might be ugly, but with enough effort it may work. Where I work, we ended up paying for the commercial Aspose products. Example doc to pdf code: http://www.aspose.com/docs/display/wordsnet/How+to++Convert+a+Document+to+PDF http://www.aspose.com/docs/display/wordsnet/How+to++Convert+...