Very preliminary documentation; sorry about that. :-) You'll need: - A web server (I use Apache 2, with mpm-itk[1] to separate the ugliness from the rest of the server installation). - ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/). - Perl (http://www.perl.org/), with the CGI module. - OpenOffice.org (http://www.openoffice.org/ -- doh), tested with v1.1 only. See below for special configuration needed. - GhostScript, probably almost any halfway recent version; newer ones have better font support etc., though. (For some odd PostScript font stuff, you might even need the latest AFPL version from CVS, if you can live with its license.) http://www.ghostscript.com/ has it all. - vim (http://www.vim.org/). [1]: http://home.samfundet.no/~sesse/mpm-itk/ Configuration mkdir output/ $EDITOR config.pm $EDITOR index.html, so your site doesn't look like mine :-) Special OpenOffice.org configuration First of all, you'll need an X server (since OO.o needs one to do even -help). Xvfb will do nicely: nohup Xvfb :25 & Then, you'll need to log in as the CGI user (yes, yuck :-) ), run OpenOffice.org for the first time, accept the license etc. Then you'll have to add a new printer -- use spadmin (in the same directory as soffice), add a new printer by the name of “pdf” (probably slightly misnamed, as it will output PostScript, but OK). It's going to be a “PDF converter”, using /whatever/path/you/have/cat-into "(OUTPUT)" as command line, and your output directory as appropriate. Also remember to set the page size if you don't happen to prefer Letter already. Happy hacking :-) -- Steinar H. Gunderson , http://www.sesse.net/ (and of course, http://pdf.sesse.net/)