best way to automatically convert microsoft office documents

What is the best way to convert Microsoft Office documents automatically on a server? We need to convert lots of such documen开发者_JAVA百科ts automatically to PDF files. Currently we use PDFCreator with an OLE script, but it is a fragile process since Microsoft Office popups keeps interrupting the flow.

I have tried OpenOffice, but it is not good enough at converting Microsoft Office documents.

We've used the Oracle OutsideIn technology (formerly known as "Stellant") to do conversions of Office documents to XML. It was 99% effective, but there was the occasional document that would confound it.

http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/embedded/025613.htm

They appear to have a PDF Converter component, but I have not used it.

OutsideIn is pretty pricey. They are targeting the enterprise customer.

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There's also KeyView from Autonomy, but we have not used that either. Looks like they do not have a direct to pdf option, but they do go to html directly.

http://www.autonomy.com/content/Products/idol-modules-connectors/index.en.html

Not sure what you mean by 'automatically', but try Google Documents. You can upload .doc files in bulk to be converted to google's format. From there, you can export (in bulk) to PDF.

To use Google Docs, get a gmail account (or google apps account) and go to docs.google.com