Print MS Office documents using unix commands

Hello Friends,

Can anyone please help me how to print MS Office documents using unix commands.
With lp and lpr commands, it is giving the following error
lp: unable to print file: client-error-document-format-not-supported

Please suggest me how to print doc files in unix

I don't think there are *any* printers that support direct printing of MS Office documents. Using OpenOffice in server mode through its Java API is one way of doing this.

You seem to have lots of different questions about printing of documents - maybe if you told us what the overall problem is you're trying to address we can point to solutions that address it in full, instead of piecemeal for each question.

Ulf Dittmer wrote:I don't think there are *any* printers that support direct printing of MS Office documents. Using OpenOffice in server mode through its Java API is one way of doing this.

You seem to have lots of different questions about printing of documents - maybe if you told us what the overall problem is you're trying to address we can point to solutions that address it in full, instead of piecemeal for each question.

Hello,

Sorry for late reply..
I found that best solution to print files is by using unix command,lp..It is very simple to do..
But..it too has some limitations.
it doesnt support some formats.
Now..I want MS Office documents to be printed..By any way..
i.e. unix or java program or convert docs to PDF and then print.
Please suggest any way to achieve it.

Thanks

Ulf Dittmer wrote:Using OpenOffice in server mode through its Java API is one way of doing this.

Ulf Dittmer wrote:

Ulf Dittmer wrote:Using OpenOffice in server mode through its Java API is one way of doing this.

Hiii

Thanks for your response..
Could you please help me out with some sample examples.

Thanks