Converting .DOC, .XSL filo to PDF

Hi all,
currently I am looking for a Java API which would be able to convert DOC and XSL files to PDF file + adding bookmark information into both files also. I am not interested in solutions using hidden instances of some applications like Jacob (using MS Word instance) or OpenOffice SDK (using OpenOffice.org appl.) as it is the problem I am trying to avoid.
Thanks a lot for any advice.
Frank
P.S.: I am a newie in here so I hope I didn't "do" anything against rules... :)

You can not. the best you can do is use something like POI to give an approx. render of the page, and spit it out to PDF, or using a native word view, and script it in some way to print to a PDF.

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is any special API fo this convertion?

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I am using apache's FOP 0.20.3, xerces 2.0.0.beta4 and xalan j.2.2.0 to convert xml/xsl file to pdf. The code is same as the one given in the org.apache.fop.apps.Driver class.
<pre>
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     driver.setRenderer(Driver.RENDER_PDF);
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          fope.printStackTrace();
     catch (FileNotFoundException fnfe)
          fnfe.printStackTrace();
</pre>
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<pre>
[ERROR]: Logger not set
[INFO]: building formatting object tree
[INFO]: [1]
org.apache.fop.apps.FOPException: java.lang.NullPointerException
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     at XmlToPdf2.<init>(XmlToPdf2.java:28)
     at XmlToPdf2.main(XmlToPdf2.java:42)
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     at XmlToPdf2.<init>(XmlToPdf2.java:28)
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     at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.endEntity(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:445)
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     at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TrAXFilter.parse(TrAXFilter.java:134)
     at org.apache.fop.apps.Driver.render(Driver.java:481)
     at XmlToPdf2.<init>(XmlToPdf2.java:28)
     at XmlToPdf2.main(XmlToPdf2.java:42)
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.NullPointerException
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     at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TrAXFilter.parse(TrAXFilter.java:134)
     at org.apache.fop.apps.Driver.render(Driver.java:481)
     at XmlToPdf2.<init>(XmlToPdf2.java:28)
     at XmlToPdf2.main(XmlToPdf2.java:42)
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     at org.apache.fop.apps.Driver.render(Driver.java:481)
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</pre>
Can anybody help?

Hi,
I also facing same problem,did you get the solution.
I am using apache's FOP 0.20.3, xerces-1.2.3 and xalan-2.0.0 and jdk1.3 with weblogic5.1 to convert xml/xsl file to pdf. The code is same as the one given in the org.apache.fop.apps.Driver class.
please give me sample code.
thanks,
[email protected]

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