[YLUG] Convert DWF files to PDF

[Fintan Gaughan]

thanks for your help, kicked up a stink and now have DWF converter.
What I did was delay everyone elses work in order for that lot to
complain that I need a dwf converter :-)


Fintan

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On 09/11/2007, john halewood <john.halewood at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 08/11/2007, Fintan Gaughan <fgaughan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is there any program where I can convert  dwf files into pdf's.
> >
> > Doing my head in at work opening each file and save to pdf..
> > Although I can ssh into my home linux box I wonder if anyone have any
> > ideas or do this at home doing it via command line.
> > Whats is  your recommendation? I prefer to do it via command line… if possible.
>
> I guess you're running M$ at work and there's a whole bunch of dwf to
> pdf converters, most of which support batch conversion which seem to
> vary in price between free (as in shareware) and a whole £60. Given
> that, I reckon that the dwf format must be pretty well documented and
> looking at autocad's website, there's API's you can download for it.
> If you can knock up a dwf>pdf converter in unix, you should be able to
> run it under cygwin and then you won't need to bother using ssh to
> transfer the files back and forth as well, which should save you a
> whole load of bandwidth (that's presuming they also allow you to
> install your own programs).
>
> cheers
> john
>
> soory about the typing, having to share keyboard on the laptop with a
> cat (he typed the intelligent bits).
>
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