ColdFusion 9/OpenOffice for Word to PDF

> Is anyone using the CF9/OpenOffice to convert Word/Excel documents to PDF? How well is it working? What sort of issues did you run into? How did you get around them? If you have a history / archive of documents that have not been created with PDF conversion in mind any conversion project is going to be painful. That is not because of either OpenOffice or ColdFusion, but because Office type of documents tend to be of very poor quality. I have done one project in particular for one of the Big Four where we basically pointed LiveCycle PDF Generator + MS Office + OpenOffice at a network drive with 12 years of documents to convert \and the things we ran into were: - password protection; - missing fonts; - no print permissions; - incorrect print ranges; - wrong paper format; - missing linked documents; - Office apps hanging on various dialogues (updates, missing references files, macros etc.). I believe the project ended up sending a significant part to India for manual conversion. But if you are dealing with current documents it is a whole different ballgame. Take a CMS like Razuna or Alfresco and configure / program it to run an automated PDF conversion for every document that is being saved. All errors get returned to the person who uploaded the document and people will learn fast. Fix the permissions so that only the owner can download the source format and the rest has to use the PDF file and you have turned the rest of the users into a large QA group. Jochem -- Jochem van Dieten http://jochem.vandieten.net/