At 06:56 PM 9/29/2002 -0400, David A. Desrosiers wrote:
> I took a few minutes today and hacked together a perl script that
>wraps around wvHtml[1] and the existing Python distiller, and allows you to
>fetch remote Microsoft Word documents (.rtf, .doc)and convert them into
>Plucker format. It will probably not work on Windows systems right now, but
>works fine on my Linux and Unix systems here in the tests I've run. I'll try
>to get perl installed on my Windows images and clean it up in the next
>release to work on Windows. It's not my native platform, so I don't run it.
I foolishly figured that I'd quickly write a Windows wrapper using the OLE
Automation to do the same thing without wvWord/wvHTML... and after some
serious debugging discovered that Python's SGMLLib library isn't up to the
task even with the automation creating Netscape-compatible pre-CSS pages,
stuff that Opera and Netscape handle with aplump just crap out there. Oh
well... seemed like a good idea at the time. <grin>
Tony McNamara
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