Good way to create PDF from Office documents in Java

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Published on 2008-10-01T09:56:28Z Indexed on 2010/04/19 8:53 UTC
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I'm looking for a good way to convert Office (mostly Microsoft) documents to PDF in Java. I've been looking at using the OpenOffice SDK but from the samples I've looked at it looks like this requires having OpenOffice running in server mode to do the work.

Does anyone know of a good way to do this? Good meaning the less external requirements, the better. A 100% Java API would be best, but I don't expect that actually exists.

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