[ale] CLI conversion of word DOCs to PDF

[cfowler at outpostsentinel.com (Chris Fowler)]

On 05/07/2012 04:26 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> There's some cli stuff for openoffice/libreoffice, i.e. it has a
> headless version. I have not used it. At a prior location, openoffice
> files were unzipped and stored as XML in a SNV repo. So a doc check-in
> was a script to unzip, push to svn followed by a pull and overwrite.
>
> If you have much docs to publish it might be better to look at a
> document processing system. I've used Docbook formatting and Publican to
> generate HTML/PDF output. This allows for SVN or GIT for
> archival/check-in ability with a build process that's separated from the
> content.
>
>

libreoffice with --headless option works great!

Thanks.