You would earn the gratitude of thousands of Perlers if you would take that solution and wrap it in a CPAN distribution. Maybe take a look at Alien to guarantee the OpenOffice installation. It sounds dumb to release a CPAN distribution for just a few lines of a system call, but it's a really big deal to be able to interface with this process using a Perl module. And, if you built it generically enough, then you could very easily extend this to wrap all the format manipulations that OO provides. THAT would be awesome!
My criteria for good software:
  1. Does it work?
  2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

In reply to Re^4: Convert .doc to .pdf by dragonchild
in thread Convert .doc to .pdf by xorl

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