Web app to convert documents to PDF

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Hi all, I've been working steadily on a web app that converts uploaded documents to PDF. It's still very much a work in progress and it lacks several big features that I am going to be working on over this weekend. I consider this to be a proof of concept, because I've written a similar implementation of in the past, and it was entirely based on Windows and a bunch of expensive software that was difficult to scale (Windows, Office, Acrobat), and it had to store the flat-file on disk because that's what was needed. My current implementation here uses all open-source software, is on Linux, and does not deal at all with flat files - I just store the raw data in a database. So, there's no Office interop or Acrobat or anything involved. I think this will scale much better. I just wanted to show what I've got so far because feedback is exciting. Anyways, I don't have much error handling or anything coded in, so it may blow up if you poke it too much. Also, it will only convert Excel documents to PDF, at the moment. I have to add support for more file types, but that is a relatively simply task compared to the other features. Basically, sign up, create a bucket and upload some excel documents. They should process and be converted into PDF, at which point you can view them using PDF.js. (so, a newer browser will be required) Check it out: http://litigance.com

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