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Is this using LibreOffice on the server to convert DOC to PDF or SVG or flash?

Is the source code available?

The viewer mostly based on PDF.js (http://mozilla.github.com/pdf.js/) with a customized UI. On server side, we leverage several components (incl. LibreOffice) to convert different document types to PDF.

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