Hello fellow Monks! Im at a loss of what to do for a project that was assigned to me. Basically, we are creating a messageboard for a college campus that people can post news and whatnot instead of printing out 23489384387 different sheets of paper that just get thrown out in an effort to save money. We want people to be able to attach a text file or image or word document to the news and upload it, and we want the server to convert it to .pdf format. Ive played a lot with perl and pdfs, Ive used a couple modules before to turn plain text and html into pdfs however I am at a loss how to proceed. The best I have so far come up with is some code that uses Win32::OLE to manipulate word to do the conversion, however due to resources on the server this isnt an option. Does anyone have any idea for an automated way to convert word files to pdfs? I implore you to just point me in the right direction!

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