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Hi,
I'm lookin for an external tool which could convert any type of
documents to pdf from server.
(with as much functionnalitie s as possible : schedule, pooling, multi
thread, embedding font, encrypt, merge, ...)

(Actually testing neevia Document Convert pro)

Does anyone got experience and/or links regarding this ?

Thks for help.

Dec 19 '06 #1
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Hi,

Any type of document? well, I think that is pretty much impossible,
especially server side.

The best you could do is to try to print the document to the pdf writer, but
even so you need to know how to make (if possible) the program that handle
the document print such a document

Do you have any particuylar format in mind?

--
Ignacio Machin
machin AT laceupsolutions com

"Franck" <we**********@g mail.comwrote in message
news:11******** **************@ 48g2000cwx.goog legroups.com...
Hi,
I'm lookin for an external tool which could convert any type of
documents to pdf from server.
(with as much functionnalitie s as possible : schedule, pooling, multi
thread, embedding font, encrypt, merge, ...)

(Actually testing neevia Document Convert pro)

Does anyone got experience and/or links regarding this ?

Thks for help.

Dec 19 '06 #2
Today, .doc, .xls, .ppt, .tif and .html
I know that manage everykind of documents is rather impossible as you
said but lookin for so much tools/controls/library which are all known
to be the better and faster tool, I'm quite lost.
On 19 déc, 16:09, "Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)" <machin TA
laceupsolutions .comwrote:
Hi,

Any type of document? well, I think that is pretty much impossible,
especially server side.

The best you could do is to try to print the document to the pdf writer, but
even so you need to know how to make (if possible) the program that handle
the document print such a document

Do you have any particuylar format in mind?

--
Ignacio Machin
machin AT laceupsolutions com

"Franck" <wesley.sa...@g mail.comwrote in messagenews:11* *************** ******@48g2000c wx.googlegroups .com...
Hi,
I'm lookin for an external tool which could convert any type of
documents to pdf from server.
(with as much functionnalitie s as possible : schedule, pooling, multi
thread, embedding font, encrypt, merge, ...)
(Actually testing neevia Document Convert pro)
Does anyone got experience and/or links regarding this ?
Thks for help.- Masquer le texte des messages précédents -- Afficher le texte des messages précédents -
Dec 19 '06 #3
I'ver used activePDF in the past, its a good tool but its not free.

Regards

John Timney (MVP)
VISIT MY WEBSITE:
http://www.johntimney.com
http://www.johntimney.com/blog
"Franck" <we**********@g mail.comwrote in message
news:11******** **************@ i12g2000cwa.goo glegroups.com.. .
Today, .doc, .xls, .ppt, .tif and .html
I know that manage everykind of documents is rather impossible as you
said but lookin for so much tools/controls/library which are all known
to be the better and faster tool, I'm quite lost.
On 19 déc, 16:09, "Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)" <machin TA
laceupsolutions .comwrote:
Hi,

Any type of document? well, I think that is pretty much impossible,
especially server side.

The best you could do is to try to print the document to the pdf writer,
but
even so you need to know how to make (if possible) the program that handle
the document print such a document

Do you have any particuylar format in mind?

--
Ignacio Machin
machin AT laceupsolutions com

"Franck" <wesley.sa...@g mail.comwrote in
messagenews:11* *************** ******@48g2000c wx.googlegroups .com...
Hi,
I'm lookin for an external tool which could convert any type of
documents to pdf from server.
(with as much functionnalitie s as possible : schedule, pooling, multi
thread, embedding font, encrypt, merge, ...)
(Actually testing neevia Document Convert pro)
Does anyone got experience and/or links regarding this ?
Thks for help.- Masquer le texte des messages précédents -- Afficher le
texte des messages précédents -

Dec 19 '06 #4
Hi,

Why is the reason you need to convert them to pdf in the first place?

You may find a third party tool that convert some formats (at least those
from office) to pdf. Google for such a solution
--
Ignacio Machin
machin AT laceupsolutions com

"Franck" <we**********@g mail.comwrote in message
news:11******** **************@ i12g2000cwa.goo glegroups.com.. .
Today, .doc, .xls, .ppt, .tif and .html
I know that manage everykind of documents is rather impossible as you
said but lookin for so much tools/controls/library which are all known
to be the better and faster tool, I'm quite lost.
On 19 déc, 16:09, "Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)" <machin TA
laceupsolutions .comwrote:
Hi,

Any type of document? well, I think that is pretty much impossible,
especially server side.

The best you could do is to try to print the document to the pdf writer,
but
even so you need to know how to make (if possible) the program that handle
the document print such a document

Do you have any particuylar format in mind?

--
Ignacio Machin
machin AT laceupsolutions com

"Franck" <wesley.sa...@g mail.comwrote in
messagenews:11* *************** ******@48g2000c wx.googlegroups .com...
Hi,
I'm lookin for an external tool which could convert any type of
documents to pdf from server.
(with as much functionnalitie s as possible : schedule, pooling, multi
thread, embedding font, encrypt, merge, ...)
(Actually testing neevia Document Convert pro)
Does anyone got experience and/or links regarding this ?
Thks for help.- Masquer le texte des messages précédents -- Afficher le
texte des messages précédents -

Dec 19 '06 #5
"John Timney (MVP)" <x_****@timney. eclipse.co.ukwr ote in message
news:2P******** *************** *******@eclipse .net.uk...
its a good tool but its not free.
Ain't that the truth...!
Dec 19 '06 #6
One product that I stronggly recommend is the Adobe LiveCycle PDF Generator.
It does everything you want a a little bit more.

Rgs,

Robson Siqueira

"Ignacio Machin ( .NET/ C# MVP )" <machin TA laceupsolutions .comwrote in
message news:OP******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP02.phx.gbl...
Hi,

Why is the reason you need to convert them to pdf in the first place?

You may find a third party tool that convert some formats (at least those
from office) to pdf. Google for such a solution
--
Ignacio Machin
machin AT laceupsolutions com

"Franck" <we**********@g mail.comwrote in message
news:11******** **************@ i12g2000cwa.goo glegroups.com.. .
Today, .doc, .xls, .ppt, .tif and .html
I know that manage everykind of documents is rather impossible as you
said but lookin for so much tools/controls/library which are all known
to be the better and faster tool, I'm quite lost.
On 19 déc, 16:09, "Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)" <machin TA
laceupsolutions .comwrote:
>Hi,

Any type of document? well, I think that is pretty much impossible,
especially server side.

The best you could do is to try to print the document to the pdf writer,
but
even so you need to know how to make (if possible) the program that
handle
the document print such a document

Do you have any particuylar format in mind?

--
Ignacio Machin
machin AT laceupsolutions com

"Franck" <wesley.sa...@g mail.comwrote in
messagenews:11 *************** *******@48g2000 cwx.googlegroup s.com...
Hi,
I'm lookin for an external tool which could convert any type of
documents to pdf from server.
(with as much functionnalitie s as possible : schedule, pooling, multi
thread, embedding font, encrypt, merge, ...)
(Actually testing neevia Document Convert pro)
Does anyone got experience and/or links regarding this ?
Thks for help.- Masquer le texte des messages précédents -- Afficher le
texte des messages précédents -


Dec 19 '06 #7
For a subset of those, you could look at abcpdf and/or htmldoc. I have
recently done a lot of scalability testing, and activepdf, while
versatile, is a bit of a hog. abcpdf was, for my money, both very cost
effective, yet highly scalable. And no I'm not affiliated. I used to
recommend htmldoc, but a: it isn't .Net based (need to shell), and b:
that awaited 1.9 (CSS) release is just too long in the coming
considering all the competition now support such. Both of these
products really only address html and images, but are good tools
(very, IMO, for abcpdf) at what they do.

Marc
Dec 20 '06 #8
I do agree activePDF is a hog, but its very versatile - and it does convert
things like doc files, and xls to pdf. Not many products can do that well.

To get round its hoginess I created a fifo queue for all submitted files, so
that it only processed them in the background one at a time, in order and
emailed the resuling PDF as a timed expiring html link to the requestor.
Made it quite efficent actually.
--
--
Regards

John Timney (MVP)
VISIT MY WEBSITE:
http://www.johntimney.com
http://www.johntimney.com/blog

"Marc Gravell" <ma**********@g mail.comwrote in message
news:uc******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP04.phx.gbl...
For a subset of those, you could look at abcpdf and/or htmldoc. I have
recently done a lot of scalability testing, and activepdf, while
versatile, is a bit of a hog. abcpdf was, for my money, both very cost
effective, yet highly scalable. And no I'm not affiliated. I used to
recommend htmldoc, but a: it isn't .Net based (need to shell), and b: that
awaited 1.9 (CSS) release is just too long in the coming considering all
the competition now support such. Both of these products really only
address html and images, but are good tools (very, IMO, for abcpdf) at
what they do.

Marc


Dec 20 '06 #9

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