For a recent project I needed to perform document translations from DOC to PNG which requires an essential intermediate step to PDF. The transformations required us to go to from DOC to PDF which can easily be done very nicely using openoffice 2.3 in a headless configuration. The downside is you need a process running [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Categories: CentOS5, Fedora, Linux, Web Development
By far the most messy thing on CentOS 5.2 is adding Sun’s Java. I have never found great success from the different packages that are out there for installing java. I prefer to simply use the packages from Sun. Step (1) : Visit Sun’s web site and download the latest version of Java (the *.bin [...]
Categories: CentOS5