Re: docx (office 2007) from CF? (Cross)

2008-10-15 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Tuesday 14 Oct 2008, Jim Davis wrote: course, nearly all the documentation on this stuff is available in PDF (a format more closed than OOXML). Umm, eh ? http://www.google.com/search?btnG=Google+Searchq=pdf+standard -- Tom Chiverton Helping to quickly network performance-oriented robust

Re: docx (office 2007) from CF? (Cross)

2008-10-15 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Tuesday 14 Oct 2008, Jim Davis wrote: Seriously tho' - the requirement is to do this in Word. It's nonsensical to suggest non-Word alternatives. The client-side requirements are immutable. Fair enough, if you've decided Word is the way to go for editable rich text. However, just because a

RE: docx (office 2007) from CF? (Cross)

2008-10-15 Thread Jim Davis
-Original Message- From: Tom Chiverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 4:38 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: docx (office 2007) from CF? (Cross) On Tuesday 14 Oct 2008, Jim Davis wrote: course, nearly all the documentation on this stuff is available in PDF

Re: docx (office 2007) from CF? (Cross)

2008-10-14 Thread Loathe
We already have a PDF solution in place. Which is great if they just need to print the document. They also want to be able to save, edit and pass around the document. I'm just doing what the client has told me, word is what they want. Tom Chiverton wrote: On Monday 13 Oct 2008, Loathe

Re: docx (office 2007) from CF? (Cross)

2008-10-14 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Monday 13 Oct 2008, Loathe wrote: I have to create very large (sometimes hundreds of pages) word documents from CF with some pretty specific formatting and layout rules. Is PDF not an option ? You've jumped straight to a technology specific answer twice now, with out explain the actual

Re: docx (office 2007) from CF? (Cross)

2008-10-14 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Tuesday 14 Oct 2008, Loathe wrote: We already have a PDF solution in place. Which is great if they just need to print the document. They also want to be able to save, edit and pass around the document. Perfectly possible in a PDF file format. Sometimes without paying Adobe (OpenOffice

RE: docx (office 2007) from CF? (Cross)

2008-10-14 Thread Jim Davis
-Original Message- From: Tom Chiverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 10:36 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: docx (office 2007) from CF? (Cross) On Tuesday 14 Oct 2008, Loathe wrote: We already have a PDF solution in place. Which is great if they just

RE: docx (office 2007) from CF? (Cross)

2008-10-14 Thread Jim Davis
-Original Message- From: Shannon Peevey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 12:41 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: docx (office 2007) from CF? (Cross) Perfectly possible in a PDF file format. Sometimes without paying Adobe (OpenOffice v3, for example

Re: docx (office 2007) from CF? (Cross)

2008-10-14 Thread Shannon Peevey
Perfectly possible in a PDF file format. Sometimes without paying Adobe (OpenOffice v3, for example). I'm just a poor country chicken... but this here OpenOffice don't seem like it's Word. Seriously tho' - the requirement is to do this in Word. It's nonsensical to suggest non-Word

Re: docx (office 2007) from CF? (Cross)

2008-10-14 Thread Loathe
10:36 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: docx (office 2007) from CF? (Cross) On Tuesday 14 Oct 2008, Loathe wrote: We already have a PDF solution in place. Which is great if they just need to print the document. They also want to be able to save, edit and pass around the document. Perfectly

Re: docx (office 2007) from CF? (Cross)

2008-10-14 Thread Loathe
It's gong to be in Word 07. Thats the requirement. Shannon Peevey wrote: Perfectly possible in a PDF file format. Sometimes without paying Adobe (OpenOffice v3, for example). I'm just a poor country chicken... but this here OpenOffice don't seem like it's Word. Seriously tho' - the

Re: docx (office 2007) from CF? (Cross)

2008-10-14 Thread Wil Genovese
can have cf create the xml files. Jim Davis wrote: -Original Message- From: Tom Chiverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 10:36 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: docx (office 2007) from CF? (Cross) On Tuesday 14 Oct 2008, Loathe wrote: We already have a PDF

Re: docx (office 2007) from CF? (Cross)

2008-10-14 Thread Wil Genovese
Subject: Re: docx (office 2007) from CF? (Cross) On Tuesday 14 Oct 2008, Loathe wrote: We already have a PDF solution in place. Which is great if they just need to print the document. They also want to be able to save, edit and pass around the document. Perfectly possible in a PDF file

Re: docx (office 2007) from CF? (Cross)

2008-10-14 Thread Loathe
10:36 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: docx (office 2007) from CF? (Cross) On Tuesday 14 Oct 2008, Loathe wrote: We already have a PDF solution in place. Which is great if they just need to print the document. They also want to be able to save, edit and pass around the document

Re: docx (office 2007) from CF? (Cross)

2008-10-14 Thread Loathe
: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 10:36 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: docx (office 2007) from CF? (Cross) On Tuesday 14 Oct 2008, Loathe wrote: We already have a PDF solution in place. Which is great if they just need to print the document. They also want to be able to save, edit and pass

RE: docx (office 2007) from CF? (Cross)

2008-10-13 Thread Tom Chiverton
Nope, not seen anything do it. You can look into calling Java's POI directly of course, but AFAIK that doesn't write the not-a-standard .docx XML files, only the older also-not-a-standard .doc binary files. What's your use case ? -Original Message- From: Loathe [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: docx (office 2007) from CF? (Cross)

2008-10-13 Thread Loathe
I have to create very large (sometimes hundreds of pages) word documents from CF with some pretty specific formatting and layout rules. I've been using iText to create some basic word docs, but as soon as they get too large CF throws weird errors. The biggies are I need to be able to set

Re: docx (office 2007) from CF? (Cross)

2008-10-13 Thread Shannon Peevey
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Loathe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to create very large (sometimes hundreds of pages) word documents from CF with some pretty specific formatting and layout rules. I've been using iText to create some basic word docs, but as soon as they get too large CF

Re: docx (office 2007) from CF? (Cross)

2008-10-13 Thread Loathe
Thanks, looks like a great place to start. Shannon Peevey wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Loathe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to create very large (sometimes hundreds of pages) word documents from CF with some pretty specific formatting and layout rules. I've been using iText