If you are using report generator and would like to produce a .pdf programatically (for, e.g., a deployed application) but want to do that from a Word Document template, you can do this via the following code:
d = Report(...)
...
close(d);
rptview(d.OutputPath, 'pdf');
it will convert the .docx file to a .pdf. (Thus, you can proceed programatically as .dotx -> .docx -> .pdf, even in a deployed application.)
Unfortunately, this will also display the .pdf file as it is created, which may not be the intended behavior for a deployed application.
UPDATE: Turns out if you use docview(), you can avoid having anything display when you convert from .docx to .pdf:
docview('whateverYourFileHappensToBeNamed.docx','convertdocxtopdf','closeapp');
It is possible that this will not work on Linux (and maybe Mac); in any case, I haven't tested in those environments.
