Just today I needed to send a document to someone that I had no idea
what they use for word processing. This was a word 97 document with a
table that had been converted from an excel spreadsheet. I saved it in
html from word, changed < font face = arial to <font face = arial,
helvetica, sans serif ran tidy on it to clean up the 135 warnings due to
misplaced tags and sent it. The problem is the table really needs to be
printed in landscape orientation or the browsers will truncate the last
couple of columns. I tried rtf but the table converted really poorly
and I was looking for a solution that could be repeated pretty easily.
This was the best I could come up with.
I was used to working in a relatively homogenous windows environment at
the big company I used to work for but since going out on my own and
dealing with people from all kinds of computing environments I have
gained an appreciation for the lack of a non windows solution. I notice
that a lot of people send me office documents (although my attorney is a
WorkPerfect holdout) without even concidering what it takes to read it.
MicroSoft has really done a good job of making it a defacto standard.
Bummer.
Bret
Charles Galpin wrote:
>
> I haven't tried these, but have seen things like this before on freshmeat.
>
> http://word2x.alcom.co.uk/
> http://www.wvWare.com/
>
> they preserve formatting (to some degree). Let us know how they perform!
>
> charles
>
> On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Paul M. Foster wrote:
> >
> > I can write a perl script to do that. The formatting is really the point.
> > I'm just surprised no one has done a program like this. There's sgml2html,
> > html2latex, etc. etc., but nothing to do this.
>
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