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Is there any GNU/Linux command line utility that converts .doc(x) files to .pdf? [closed]

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Surely I am the 100th user who is asking this but after I have searched through the similar topics here and on other websites I still cannot find what I need. I like to have a simple command line tool for my GNU/Linux which converts .doc(x) files to .pdf BUT the output looks like the same as the original. So Libre Office is not good choise for this because it does not convert good in some cases. I have found a website http://www.freepdfconvert.com/ which does the job wery well, but I cannot upload there any sensitive files since it is a big risk. I dont say they would do anything bad with them but its how it is. If I wont find any good tool maybe I will have to write one by myself.

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Unfortunately there are no Linux-based guaranteed 1-to-1 convertors for Word (doc/docx) to PDF. This is because Word, a Microsoft product, uses a proprietary format that changes slightly with every release. As it was not traditionally a publicly documented format and Microsoft does not port Word/Office to Linux (nor ever will) then you must rely upon reverse engineered third party tools for older formats (doc) and proper interpretation of the Office Open XML format by third party developers.

We found the best open source solution is LibreOffice (which was forked from OpenOffice.org, which itself was called Star Office before it was open sourced). It is much more actively developed than AbiWord, as another answer suggested.

The usage from the command line is simple and well documented with plenty of examples:

Or also you can use libreoffice instead of soffice on newer versions.

There is also Pandoc .

Pandoc, mainly known for its Markdown-capable processing goodness (for outputting HTML, LaTeX, PDF, EPUB and what-not) in recent months has gained a rather well-working capability to process DOCX input files.
_{(NOTE: Pandoc only works for DOCX, not for DOC files.)}

For its PDF output to work, it requires a working LaTeX installation (with either or all of pdflatex , lualatex and xelatex included). In this case the following simple command should work:

Note however, that the output layout and font styles now will not look at all similar to what it would look if you exported the DOCX from Word to PDF. It will be using the styles of a default LaTeX document.

You can influence the output style of the LaTeX-generated PDF by using a custom template file like this.

. but this is a feature more for Pandoc/LaTeX experts to use than for beginners.

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How to convert Word (doc) to PDF in linux?

I have a set of files in .doc format, that need to be converted to .pdf format. I am using Ubuntu linux.

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Then navigate to System > Administration > Printing and create a new printer, set it as a PDF file printer, and name it as «pdf».

Now you’ll find your .pdf file in

If the tetex-extra package is not available with your distribution, try texlive-base plus texlive-latex-base:

/PDF path to somewhere else ? – hd. Jan 13 ’13 at 5:05

Printing to PDF loses a lot of the document metadata (title, authorship, the headings tree that is used for navigation, and so on).

Install unoconv, convert with: unoconv -fpdf file1.doc file2.doc…

If you’re running X then you can do it through Open Office. Since you’re about to object to doing it manually, remember there’s some nice macro scripts in Open Office so you can automate it. You can do something similar with AbiWord (AbiWord —to=pdf).

If you’ve not got X then there is antiword, but that just extracts the text — doesn’t do any formatting or graphics. There’s also wvWare which I’ve used to bulk extract images from doc files, but I’ve never tried using it to convert doc files to pdfs.

Oh and .docx files may well need something different, but since they’re just zipped xml files it shouldn’t be too difficult to do something useful with them. For bulk extracting images you just unzip them and copy the images directory, but I’ve never needed to convert them in Linux.

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PDF to word conversion software?

Is there any free software available on Ubuntu that can convert a pdf file to a .doc file?

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openoffice (or alternatively the libreoffice fork) both have pdf import plugins and .doc export functionality. though both aspects suffer from conversion issues AFAIK. By this I mean that the conversion fidelity isn’t always 100%.

Abiword also works in a similar way, if OpenOffice doesn’t work on your system.

Download Abiword from Ubuntu Software Center or you can install it by typing following command in terminal:

Then perform the conversion:

I’ve had great success with PDF to Word online. This is not a desktop application, but a service, that works better than other things I’ve used.

Install AbiWord from Ubuntu Software Center

Open Pdf Files with it.

Use Save As.. to save pdf in Word Doc format.

I prefer converting PDF files first to HTML using pdftohtml included in the poppler-utils package, for example by means of a Nautilus Script merely consisting of this command:

Then I open the resulting HTML file in LibreOffice Writer, and (after a little editing) Save As any other document format I like.

Note: Adding -i parameter to the command above produces HTML file without images.

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