Or, perhaps, you might elaborate step 4):
  a. Open word doc with OpenOffice (does the job very nicely)
  b) Tell OO to save as .pdf (in some appropriate place)
continue with step 5)

UPDATE: Missed Corion's and Fletchs mention/deprecation of this idea, but OO2.x both reads Word .docs reliably and has option for .pdf output... which might even be worth the pain of using java to achieve the the minimal automation required in 4b and 5 ... if, in fact, there's no public API to interface with Perl.

  ...and believe me, it pains me to say that.
                    <;-)

In reply to Re: Convert .doc to .pdf by ww
in thread Convert .doc to .pdf by xorl

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