Ironically we've just written a server side Word PIA VSTO solution that uses bookmarks to identify where values need to be inserted - Literals, XPath Lookups, RTF etc. Words implementation of Bookmarks and Ranges is an absolute nightmare! We're now facing the challenges of word throwing up a modal dialogue box when being used from a service - (Anybody got an pointers here would be really good).
The once thing that VSTO does give us is that if the solution turns out to be a total fiasco we can get the VSTO to run on the client's machine. One thing that we are also looking at is using Word 2003 on the client computer (installing the Office 12 compatibility pack) and on the server having an Office 12 document that we simply insert the correct XML in the pertinent places rather than modifying the object model. Regards Rob. -----Original Message----- From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jonathan Heizer Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2007 5:29 AM To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Build RTF Document Yup, that's it. I was stripping out the rtf header info to try to fix it, but no luck. TX's license system is getting to be a bit out of hand. I am using this in a dll and the license has to be installed in the exe or it won't run. That is a bit of a pain in my situation so I am downloading Aspose now to try it out. -Jon -----Original Message----- From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Welborn Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 2:03 PM To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Build RTF Document Your project is similar to what mine what. I had to take multiple rtf files (we talked them into .doc files later on) and create one big file. So I ran into the same troubles as you in inserting one rtf document into the another. Sometimes it would work, but other times the font was off. I figured it had to do with the header in the second rtf file clashing with the header of the first document. That Aspose control did the trick. I just basically passed it the file path and name of the rtf (or doc)file and it handled all the inserting and saving. I basically put up to 33 documents into one document using it. And so far its been flawless. -----Original Message----- From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jonathan Heizer Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 2:44 PM To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Build RTF Document If you were the one that discussed this on here before I ran into it earlier. Aspose is in my list of ones to review. Right not I am looking at TX TextControl @ textcontrol.com since it is much cheaper. It looks like one of these two are going to be the way to go unless someone knows of a cheaper option. Thanks for the feedback, Jon -----Original Message----- From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Welborn Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 1:27 PM To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Build RTF Document Jon, I did a project that dealt with rtf files almost a year ago. I never had so much gray hair as I do now. About 6 months of working on it a fellow programming mentioned Aspose.Words (1) and it did took 2 weeks to implement the way we wanted and get the output we were looking for. Had I of had this at the start of the project I would have been done months sooner. I would highly suggest something like this. It handles .doc and .rtf. Good luck 1. http://www.aspose.com/Products/Aspose.Words/Api/ -----Original Message----- From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jonathan Heizer Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 2:18 PM To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM Subject: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Build RTF Document Hey, I have been trying to build an rtf document on the server side of a .Net remoting application. Currently the there is a rtf base document that is on the server. Each time a request comes though to generate this a new document it is loaded into a stream object. From there string replacements are done to insert sections of text by replacing key words. This works just fine for plain text. Now we are trying to also insert 2 large blocks of rich text. The first attempt was to take the rich text, remove the items that defined it as a document and insert that formatted text in directly. This works most of the time, but sometimes the fonts of the inserted text gets all jumpled up. I figure this is from removing the font table in the document definition... My next attempt was to load each set of text in richtextboxes and copy and paste the text in code into the final document. This works great in that it carries the formatting over exactly. The only problem is the header and footer information are being lost in the richtextbox. Doh! So, my options that I can think of at this moment. 1) Buy/Find a textbox control that handles header/footer information. so far $1000+ Any free suggestions? 2) Use the copy paste method and try to string add back in the header and footer definitions. Yuck! 3) Word PIA. Can this run in multiple threads? If so it is my worse case because things are really fast right now and Word can be a mess. Yuck! Yuck! Any other ideas are very much welcome! Thanks for any help, Jon =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor. http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentorR http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor. http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! 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