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Try using Open Office. You can drive it with a UNO macro or Win32::OLE.

--MidLifeXis

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Re: RTF to PDF conversion...with images
by oakb (Scribe) on Jun 24, 2009 at 16:56 UTC
    MidLifeXis,

    Thank you for your input!  This application needs to be entirely self-contained, however, and there is no way that I can demand that users install something as huge as OO.o -- or include it as part of my installation. There are actually smaller third-party tools (see, e.g., pdfforge.org) available out there for doing this, but I need to accomplish this within my own application.  Do you have any ideas for doing this entirely within Perl?

    -Brian

      Aaah, this is for on a customer machine. That makes a difference. I took the OP as doing a batch conversion or a document server of some sort.

      In the described case, I would agree, OO with a perl driver may not be the easiest sell.

      --MidLifeXis

      The tomes, scrolls etc are dusty because they reside in a dusty old house, not because they're unused. --hangon in this post