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Word doc to pdf conversion?

I am trying to find a way to convert a Word doc saved in the XML format to a PDF file (that looks like the original Word doc). Yes, there are all kinds of ways to do this interactively. What I need is something that can be run as a background process so that when XML files are placed in a certain directory a cron job can periodically convert them to a PDF file. I would assume there are some Windows libraries that have something like this, but I am trying to do this on UNIX. Without 1,000 hours of programming.
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DOC(4)							     Kernel Interfaces Manual							    DOC(4)

NAME
DOC - (Pilot standard text document) file format SYNOPSIS
struct doc_record0 { /* 16 bytes total */ Word version; /* 1 = plain text, 2 = compressed text */ Word reserved1; DWord doc_size; /* uncompressed size in bytes */ Word num_recs; /* not counting itself */ Word rec_size; /* in bytes: usually 4096 (4K) */ DWord reserved2; }; DESCRIPTION
The Doc file format is the standard text document format used by all models of the Palm Pilot. A Doc file is a pdb(4) file: this manual page describes only those aspects specific to Doc files. A Doc file consists of 0 to num_recs records; record 0 is the header for the document. (This header is distinct from the pdb(4) header.) The remaining records contain text, either plain or compressed depending upon version. Word Sizes In the synopsis above, the types ``Word'' and ``DWord'' are used just as in the Pilot headers. The type ``Word'' is 16 bits; the type ``DWord'' is 32 bits. Both are in big-endian format. Compression Format A character ``c'' in a compressed record is in one of four classes: 01-08 Copy ``c'' bytes 00,09-7F Self 80-BF Sequence C0-FF A space plus the ASCII character ``c ^ 0x80'' SEE ALSO
txt2pdbdoc(1), html2pdbtxt(1), pdbtxt2html(1), pdb(4) Christopher Bey and Kathleen Dupre. Palm File Format Specification, Document Number 3008-003, Palm, Inc., May 16, 2000. AUTHOR
Paul J. Lucas <pauljlucas@mac.com> txt2pdbdoc January 21, 2005 DOC(4)