Re: [PHP] XML to MS Word

2002-10-31 Thread Charles Wiltgen
Manuel Lemos wrote... I'd say RTF is a format you're going to be able to come to grips with quicker than .doc -- just take a look at the source of a word doc -- it's pretty obscure!!! And proprietary, and soon to be obsolete. But Office 11 files will be XML files. RTF is not a closed

Re: [PHP] XML to MS Word

2002-10-30 Thread Justin French
I'd say RTF is a format you're going to be able to come to grips with quicker than .doc -- just take a look at the source of a word doc -- it's pretty obscure!!! Justin on 31/10/02 1:01 PM, Maxim Maletsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Guys, The other day, one of my clients asked me this

Re: [PHP] XML to MS Word

2002-10-30 Thread incoming
I'd go with RTF or PDF. I know there is a way to do PDF from inside of PHP. That's the best you're going to get I think. Even AbiWord and kword have a difficult time with .doc files, whether reading or writing.(I don't think kword writes, been away from the word processor for awhile, w).

Re: [PHP] XML to MS Word

2002-10-30 Thread Maxim Maletsky
You are right about it - RTF is doable, I heard. But, I still have to answer about the MS Word thingie. Isn't there any tool to convert from, say, PDF to Word? Or like headers tricky? Thanks, Justin. --- Maxim Maletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.PHPBeginner.com // PHP for Beginners

Re: [PHP] XML to MS Word

2002-10-30 Thread Maxim Maletsky
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 21:16:14 -0600 incoming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd go with RTF or PDF. I know there is a way to do PDF from inside of PHP. That's the best you're going to get I think. PDF are done with FOP and they work perfectly well. Even AbiWord and kword have a difficult time

RE: [PHP] XML to MS Word

2002-10-30 Thread John W. Holmes
You are right about it - RTF is doable, I heard. But, I still have to answer about the MS Word thingie. Isn't there any tool to convert from, say, PDF to Word? Or like headers tricky? I use this function to send a Word header instead of an HTML header. You can then send just regular HTML

Re: [PHP] XML to MS Word

2002-10-30 Thread Charles Wiltgen
Justin French wrote... I'd say RTF is a format you're going to be able to come to grips with quicker than .doc -- just take a look at the source of a word doc -- it's pretty obscure!!! And proprietary, and soon to be obsolete. But Office 11 files will be XML files. -- Charles Wiltgen

Re: [PHP] XML to MS Word

2002-10-30 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, On 10/31/2002 04:38 AM, Charles Wiltgen wrote: Justin French wrote... I'd say RTF is a format you're going to be able to come to grips with quicker than .doc -- just take a look at the source of a word doc -- it's pretty obscure!!! And proprietary, and soon to be obsolete. But