--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "aceoohay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Amy: > > Thanks for the post. > > No, actually I will be doing this in flex, not AIR. > > What I would like to do is to have a mini word processor that a user > can edit and save RTF type files. I will define a tag such as "< > [fieldName]>" or the like where the user can specify fields that are > in the db. > > To do the merge I will take the RTF file with tags, and process it on > the backend and feed it back to a new window with "application/word" > metatag and viola word pops up with the document ready to print. > > At least that's how it should work in theory.
Probably not what you want to hear, but you could probably do something like this: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3bEN-US%3b270906 This article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format has links at the bottom that point to some server-side RTF writing tools. HTH; Amy