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I've been looking for a method to convert docx or wordml xml to xsl-fo.

I read this post:

What is the best XSLT engine for Perl?

but I'm having exceptional problems getting apache-fop going.

I was able to download the bins and run it locally but the formatting was a little off and it didn't maintain the headers and footers or section 1 or section 3 (17 page doc 3 sections).

It also overlapped the text over the outline numbers and did not maintain the font used.

Trying a more simple test caused fop to fail completely.

I would like to find a way to create a PDF that is at least close to 100% accurate reproduction of the original doc.

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I'm not sure about the xsl.fo, but I've had good experiences with PDFCreator for turning Microsoft documents to PDF, on Windows. It acts as a printer driver, so I'd guess there would be a way to automatically invoke it using COM bridges from Perl, if you're hosting your webserver on Windows (or perhaps with Wine?).

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