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SharePoint 2007 comes with a "document converter" feature that allows you to start a Word session (server side) to produce your PDF document. We have developed and installed this feature in our DITA Exchange solution and it works VERY file.
Point to the file, click a button and a PDF document is delivered to you. Sounds like magic, but it is not :-)
Combine Word with the Word PDF add-in and you have a "PDF-engine". You can even configure the out-put multiple ways using normal Word templates.
Does it meet your needs? Well...
Have a great weekend,
Ole
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>< Content Technologies ApS
Ole Rom Andersen
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From: techwr-l-bounces+ora=dita-exchange -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com [mailto:techwr-l-bounces+ora=dita-exchange -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On Behalf Of Hemstreet, Deborah
Sent: 19. september 2008 13:29
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: RE: Sharepoint and PDF creation
One of the problems with third-party PDF makers, at least the one our
company is using, is that everyone makes PDFs.. but while they may be
searchable, they are not always searchable... doc properties are not
picked up, and if the original document is lost (which has happened),
you cannot pull the text out of the PDF.
I personally do not like the third-party PDF-makers we are using - and
there were plans to go over to Sharepoint for doc control, until we
discovered that engineering has a PDM which we are going to link into.
Much more robust, and the way documents are controlled, the plan is to
get rid of the need for PDFs as much as possible.
So I support what others are saying - test your third-party PDF maker
VERY carefully and make sure the PDFs created meet your needs.
Otherwise, it is going to be a very painful process...
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