I have seen gazillions of messages about this subject, and have followed loads of links from Google to home pages for products that do just this -- for a price.
Is there no way to do this free? Currently we are using a combination of iText and JasperReports to generate PDFs but we also have a case where we have a whole bunch of already-generated Microsoft Word docs. What I would like to be able to do is emulate the Windows "Print to PDF" from my webapp -- create a PDF doc for every Word doc that is exactly the same, then save them as BLOBs in the DB.
The problems are 1) it has to work on a Linux box and 2) I would like to be able to do it for x documents all at once. So obviously, loading the Word doc, printing to a PDF file and uploading that file to the DB isn't gonna fly if the user has to do it 200 times.
Anyone ever did this without having to buy one of those gigantic and expensive professional reporting tools?
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