title: Linux-based MS Office thumbnail generation
body: <p>I've been taken onboard to work on a PHP-based web application.  One part of the application generates thumbnail images for MS Office documents on demand, and it uses MS Office + the VeryPDF docprint utility to do this.  Because of this one requirement, the system is running on Windows Server 2003 + IIS.</p>
  
  <p>I would prefer to have the system running on a Linux server, rather than MS, as I have far more experience in administering Linux systems than Windows and we have no other in-house technical staff.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone know a way to handle the document conversion using native Linux software?  I would love something PHP native, but am willing to look outside that if necessary.</p>