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I once had to help an accountant friend to fill in 1000's of docx files, and convert them to pdf. No open source tool does a proper conversion, it really sucked
by 99112000 4y ago
I once had to help an accountant friend to fill in 1000's of docx files, and convert them to pdf. No open source tool does a proper conversion, it really sucked.
- daemoens 4y agoilovepdf.com is free but isn't open source.
- chrisdbanks 4y agoI once had to do this and turned all the docx into one document, used Word to export as PDF and then used a PDF splitter to get separate documents.
- coupdejarnac 4y agoYou could script Libre Office to do this.
- thejosh 4y agoit's such a complex messy format that i'm really not surprised.
- andylynch 4y agoYeah, this would be horrible, but on flip side relatively easy to do with Word to hand.
- forinti 4y agoI have used Perl and Win32::OLE for this kind of job. Converting to PDF is actually quite easy. Before Office 2010, you had to print to Postscript and then convert to PDF using Ghost. Nowadays Word gives you the option of saving to PDF.
- pbhjpbhj 4y ago>No open source tool does a proper conversion // Presumably the key word here is "proper" because LibreOffice, etc., read docx and write pdf. For example, `libreoffice --headless --convert-to pdf myfile.docx`.