Word to PDF

[hahmed]

This is a little off topic, but did you convert the word document into PDF? If so, any library you recommend?

That's for a great gem!

[senny]

Hey @hahmed!

I am not aware of any library that can realistically convert word documents into PDF without actually running Word. At the time when I wrote sablon we did end up converting the documents into PDF but it involved a commercial product installed on a windows server.

Let me know if you happen to find something that works reliably and is open source!

[hahmed]

Thanks @senny

If you don't mind me asking, what commercial software did you use? Looks like I have to go down the same route. I was looking at Aspose for that.

[siegy22]

@hahmed I think you're looking for PDF Tools

[senny]

@hahmed as @siegy22 explained we were using a component from PDF Tools. It's installed on a windows server machine and can be interfaced via either an API or network shares. We opted for the network shares and built a web service to wrap them.