Similarly, I have had success with saving the Word doc as HTML then using
the Linux utility html2pdf to convert it.

~Jay




On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Austin Godber wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 09:38:44PM -0700, AZ Pete wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a few MS Word docs that I need to distill into PDF documents.
> > I do not have the Adobe Acrobat Suite distiller software (WAY too
> > expensive).
> > Does anyone know of any freeware/shareware utilities that can take an
> > MS Doc and distill it into PDF format.  Some of the documents are text
> > only with minimal "fancy" formatting.  However, some of them have
> > embedded pictures, charts, fancy fonts & formatting that must be
> > preserved.
> >
> > Preferably I'd like the utility to run on a Linux platform, but I also
> > have several Windows boxes at my disposal (98/2K/XP).
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> > Thanks,
> > Peter
>
> Well, you may try installing a PS printer driver on your Win box, printing
> to a PS file using that PS driver.  Then with the file (which should be ps
> .. hopefully, this is always a nuisance for me in windows) you can
> convert from ps to pdf a variety of ways.  There is a UNIX command line
> util called ps2pdf (maybe it works under cygwin).  There is also a web
> front end for ps2pdf at www.ps2pdf.com
>
> I have had some success with this method.  YMMV
>
>

-- 
~Jay