This issue cropped up with us a little while ago, but in a slightly different
context.
We have documents that are created using Word (PC users) and FrameMaker (die
hard Unix users that do not want anyone else to be able to edit their work
without first taking a degree in pontlessness). All of these documents need to
be accessed by everyone over the intranet using a variety of O/S's and
browsers.
The solution - a 'pdf printer' function. You can either buy acrobat / distiller
or some such, or if you're feeling energetic you can write your own, but don't
try this lightly (I wrote a PostScript printer driver from scratch in a former
life and spent about a year writing 20,000 lines of C code). Whatever you
choose, just run this whenever a document is uploaded and then create a link to
the pdf file (and if you don't want to edit it again, you can also delete the
original at this point). I've not yet found a browser or OS that you can't get
a decent pdf reader working with, as opposed to the word reader that NetScape
kindly crashes everytime that you try and use it (and don't think that you will
get away with telling people to download the minute either - NetScape has a
nasty habbit of changing all the carriage returns into line feeds when you
donwload from a Unix hosted site to a PC, which means that you can't use the
doc when you get it onto your PC)
Minutes are one of the applications that we use this technique for - the group
all write them in Word and then throw them at the upload filter which
automatically creates the pdf and a link to this.
Mike Flynn wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> We are trying to develop a system to allow people to upload meeting minutes
> from our organization's meetings. We'd like to assume no HTML knowledge on
> the user's part. The easiest method would be to ask them just to upload
> plain text, or to upload their MS Word file (as they do now) and hope
> everyone can read MS Word.
>
> Ideally, however, I'd like to be able to allow them the niceities of HTML
> (bold, italic, underline, big, small) without any specific file format.
>
> Are there any systems in place to take a file such as a basic Word file and
> convert its text (roughly) to HTML? Not a whole HTML page, like as if you
> exported it to HTML from Word, just the text and its properties.
>
> If anyone knows of anything like this, it would be great.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Mike Flynn
>
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