Java SE (Java Platform, Standard Edition)

Hi all...

forgive me if this is not the right place for a question like this, but since I haven't found a better one... :/ I'm into building a Java based solution for convert generic documents from inside a document management system to PostScript in order to archive, print, plot them out. Documents mainly are PDF files and a bunch of different pictures (JPG, TIFF, some BMPs), but there's also quite an amount of *.xls, *.doc, *.ppt in all versions and flavours.

By now, getting the latter ones converted to PS always seemed to be involving the creation of a "print-to-file" printer associated with some PS printer driver (did I mention this all is supposed to happen atop a Windows 2003 server or any XP workstation?), which seems to be far from optimum.

Question: Does anyone have a better idea how to accomplish this? Most notably, I'm interested to know whether there are any Java libraries / classes for doing this job; otherwise, just having a clue how to "print" any of the MS Office files to a .ps file using the Windows command line probably would suffice. Ideas, anyone?

TIA and bye,
Kris