MS office DOCX/PPTX to PDF

[manoharsompalli]

Hello,

I am think of writing a converter for microsoft office to PDF, i want to begin with doc file.
Idea is convert docx file to an intermediate state and from intermediate to Pdf.

What i am looking for:

convert docx to some defined AST using python-docx ?

Thanks

[abrefael]

You can use Libreoffice. Just:

/usr/bin/soffice --headless --convert-to pdf:writer_pdf_Export --outdir _OUTPUT__DIR PDF_FILE_.pdf

for doc\docx\odt.
or

/usr/bin/soffice --headless --convert-to pdf:impress_pdf_Export --outdir _OUTPUT__DIR PDF_FILE_.pdf

for ppt\pptx\odp.