I didn't write anything in September because my wife and i had our first baby born on the fifth - a little boy. It took about a month to get used to the new way of life. In a word: it's great! Absolutely unimaginable experience! I'm looking forward to the many years raising the baby.
I'm now trying to get back doing things i did before the baby and, surprisingly, i can!
Anyway, i have been researching some options for converting RTF (of any other Word-compatible format) files to PDF via command line. I need to automate some PDF creation on the server using templates created in Word. I tried the following tools:
- Advanced RTF2PDF Converter v2.5
- Convert Doc
The file that tested these programs with was quite complex: it had tables, vector and bitmap images, header and footer and some geometric shapes (created in Word).
"RTF2PDF Converter" failed the job, creating a PDF with content being absolutely distorted - images from one page where split into multiple pages, blank pages being inserted in between, page breaks in wrong places, etc.
"Convert Doc" performed better - images (mostly) in correct places, but with page breaks in wrong places, some broken tables. So, still unusable output.
I'm hoping to find something that can do this conversion correctly. Any suggestions?