Is it possible to convert a Microsoft Word document to PDF with ColdFusion?

Question

The above question says it all. I know you can create a PDF from an image file or HTML in ColdFusion 8 using CFPDF, but I'm wondering if it's possible to create a PDF from a MS Word document directly - in CF8 or CF9.

Could you import the Word document and convert it to HTML or an image file, and then do the conversion? Or is there a shortcut?

Answer 1

see Doc: Office file interoperability - Using cfdocument

ColdFusion 9 supports OpenOffice, which uses the cfdocument tag to convert a Word document (.doc format) to PDF.

<cfdocument 
    format="pdf" 
    srcfile="C:\documents\MyDocument.doc" 
    filename="C:\documents\MyDocument.pdf"> 
</cfdocument>