WordML to PDF Publishing for Linux, Unix, Solaris... and even Windows!

Because the really common, really venerable Microsoft Word *.doc format has traditionally been very difficult-if-not-mpossible to parse -- at least until CambridgeDocs released the Java Word *.doc Driver as part of xDoc -- content developers like yourself have a lot of hope that WordML will finally allow you to use Microsoft Word as an editor for content templates in a server-based environment.

Like its Word *.doc to PDF conversion capabilities, xDoc is also able to transform WordML content into PDF using J2SE Java technologies, which allows you to perform the conversions on Windows 2000 / XP, Linux, and Solaris servers, and as part of a J2EE application server environment like IBM WebSphere or BEA WebLogic. 

xDoc accomplishes this via an open XML approach, which means that you do not need to have Microsoft Word installed on your server (and thereby increasing the performance of the transformations), and which means that you have tremendous programmatic access and flexibility to tweak the transformation output to suit your own needs.

WordML to PDF Conversion Benefits:
	Convert Microsoft Word documents on Windows, Linux and Solaris machines
	Create custom documents on a server using WordML files as templates
	Microsoft Word does not have to be installed on the server
	Index Word content in a Documentum or Oracle Database

When converting WordML content to PDF format, xDoc uses two steps as part of its integrated multi-step approach to transforming content.  First, using a modified version of the Java XSLT Driver, xDoc transforms the WordML into XSL:FO, an open XML formatting specification.

Second, the Java PublishPDF Driver reads the XSL:FO, and creates a binary PDF representation of the original content.