Andrew McLean wrote:
> Steve Holden wrote:
>>>If that *isn't* satisfactory then a modest investment in Adobe
>>Acrobat/Distiller plus the use of Python's scripting facilities to
>>direct the conversion would be preferable to spending a huge amount of
>>time writing a hand-crafted solution.
>>> An alternative to Adobe Distiller (part of Acrobat) is PDFCreator
>>http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/>> which is free. This installs as a Windows printer (using GhostScript as
> a backend to generate PDFs). It should be relatively straightforward to
> use Python scripting to drive Word to "print" documents to the
> PDFCreator pseudo-printer.
Nice one, thanks for that, I'd missed it.
regards
Steve
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