Hi

I am in a hurry to transfer a bundle of word file to pdf.ie around 1,50,000 files..I request the suggestion for the mission in fast manner..with open source software or any other methods

Thanking you

Sujith

Not sure about doing it in batch but openoffice.org can convert files to .pdf

Never done it but check this out:
http://www.office2pdf.lll.lu/
and this:
http://wise-obs.tau.ac.il/~friedel/help/formats.html

Another possibility is to use Windows (ick)... you can create a Samba printer in Linux with a config like:

...
[pdf]
comment = Print to PDF
path = /var/spool/pdf
create mask = 0600
printable = Yes
browseable = Yes
public = yes
guest ok = no
use client driver = yes
print command = /usr/local/sbin/ps2pdf %s '/%H/PDF/%J.pdf'

The path in that print command is something unique to our network... you may have to adjust.
And then the Windows client will print to this queue as if it where a color postscript printer.
This works pretty well for us.

You'll need ps2pdf obviously (test it out locally first).

If you make the default OpenOffice printer the PDF converter, then the following command will convert a file to a PDF, with the same name as the original, in your home directory:
Perhaps you could write a shell script to do this for you in bulk.

I hope this helps
--Ian

Using this tactic - if you have all the files in the same directory, this should do it:

another solution - found this
http://doc2pdf.sourceforge.net/