Autocad DWG format

Hello,
I have the following requirement. In one of my oracle reports rdf output, I need to include an autocad drawing. This one is initially sent by the architect team to a network NAS in the format DRAWING_XXX.dwg. So, we have a bunch of these drawings that can be requested any time.
Since reports 6i does not support the DWG format, I wrote vbscript routine that does the conversion DWG -to- DXF -to- JPG using 2 separate conversion tools. As such, the image in the jpg format can be used in reports 6i. The whole conversion process was implemented on a windows server.
However, now we are moving to Oracle 10g hosted on a UNIX machine. So, the whole conversion stuff will no longer be working.
Question: Are there any workaround for Oracle Reports 10g so that we can use the original drawing in DWG format or does someone who has had a similar prob found a solution for DWG -to- DXF -to- JPG on UNIX ?
Thanks for any input.

can't you keep the conversion job on a windows-machine ?
On the unix-machine, configure samba to share a directory. (lets say directory /share/jpg as "JPG-Share")
On some windows-server, mout that directory. (lets say as "X:")
Write a windows-job, which converts every new dwg-file to jpg-format and store the jpg-file on the mounted directory. (x:\DRAWING_001.jpg, X:\DRAWING_002.jpg...)
In reports you can now use just the shared-path on unix as filename for your jpg. (/share/jpg/DRAWING_001.jpg, /share/jpg/DRAWING_002.jpg...)

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