Re: Convert Word to PDF on iSeries

    Hi Aaron,

using POI-HWPF from the Apache Jakarta project...

    Unfortunately, HWPF is looking for a developer and has been for a while.
There are other possibilities, like using OpenOffice.org API's, or just
getting people to save as RTF instead of the proprietary, changing .doc
format.  Also, Word 2003 will output XML, but I read somewhere it's removed
from later versions ( treat as gossip until verified ).

    In the end, though, I agree with Coy's second suggestion.  I'd use a
cheap PC to process what I needed and ship the files back and forth from the
AS/400 if they had to reside there.  You'd also save some processing on the
AS/400.

    If you don't agree and want to spend some money, you can also take a
look here:

http://schmidt.devlib.org/java/libraries-word.html


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Coy Krill" <coyk@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400"
<java400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 12:52 PM
Subject: RE: Convert Word to PDF on iSeries

The only solution I'm aware of would be for you to parse/process the
file using POI-HWPF from the Apache Jakarta project and then output you
results through iText from www.lowagie.com/iText/. Could be quite the
task.

Another option, if you don't need all of it on the iSeries, would be to
write a service for windows that took your word doc, printed it to pdf
using ghostscript, and then send the output back to the iseries.


Coy Krill
Systems Analyst
Whidbey Island Bank


-----Original Message-----
From: java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of albartell
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 08:18
To: java400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Convert Word to PDF on iSeries

Hi there,

Anybody know of a tool that can take Microsoft Word documents and
convert
them to PDF using Java?  The reason I say it needs to use Java is
because
this needs to run on the iSeries - which doesn't necessarily mean I NEED
Java, but that would be the best for my scenario :-)

I know of a whole slew of tooling that could run on Windows to do this,
but
strictly on the iSeries I have not had to do this before.

Thanks,
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
 <mailto:aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>