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Linbox FAS Publishes Linbox-Converter 1.0.1 Under GPL License

Linbox-Converter is a client/server application that converts MS-Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) to PDF, PostScript, text, HTML, RTF, and TIFF.

Linbox FAS Publishes Linbox-Converter 1.0.1 Under GPL License

Linbox FAS and Adullact are pleased to announce the publication of Linbox Converter on the adullact.net website.

Linbox-Converter is a client/server application written in Python language.

The client transfers to the server the MS-Office documents to convert. The server does the convertion into the requested file type (PDF, PostScript, HTML, text, RTF, or TIFF) and send back the result to the client.

The PDF file that results from the convertion is exactly the same as the output printed by MS-Office. The PDF file can be printed by the client and the result will be the same as if the printing was done with MS-Office on Windows.

Linbox-Converter usage areas

With the Linbox Converter one can visualize MS-Office files attached to their mail on machines working on Unix, GNU/Linux or Windows ;
Linbox Converter is an excellent OpenOffice.org complement because it allows - in cases when Open Office does not succeed in reading an MS-Office document - to visualize it and print it perfectly from a computer on which MS-Office is not installed ;
Make automatic treatments on MS-Office files (automatic convertion to PDF for publication on the web or archiving in a perenial open format, indexing for research after text conversion, ...) ;
Linbox Converter makes a company conversion project, from MS-Office to OpenOffice.org much easier. A batch program will run through a whole directory, convert all MS-Office documents into GIF type files, then load the MS-Office files into OpenOffice.org, print them, and finally convert them into GIF. One can then compare both documents (MS-Office and OpenOffice.org outputs) side by side on a Web page ;
Easily integrate MS-Office files into Content Management Systems. One can change the lay-out thanks to navigation tools, so as to turn them into HTML pages.