I received the following reply from Steve on JSP-INTEREST. But from
formatting capabilities, I do not think HTML editor can be a substitute for
WinWord. Also users are very much used to WinWord editor. Another problem is
that there are already many documents which are in RTF/DOC format and
converting them to HTML (retaining the same formatting) would be dificult.
Though the existing documents in can be converted to HTML format using
WinWird, the generated HTMLs are not exactly equivalent to the DOC version.
Copy Steve: Thank you very much.
Hopefully there is some solution whereby we can integrate WinWord like
editor for the requirement.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: A mailing list about Java Server Pages specification
>and reference
>
>I need to capture RTF documents on the client from a servlet
>generated HTML
>and save to database by passing the captured RTF text to the
>servlet. How to
>invoke WinWord like application from an HTML page and return
>back to the
>browser only after the user has finished editing the text in WinWord?
<SNIP>
>platforms. Is
>there any editor available for much more wider platforms and
>provide RTF
>editing capabilities? Can Adobe acrobat writer satisfy the
>requirement?
There is basic RTF (along with HTML) support included in Swing -
javax.swing.text.rtf, as an EditorKit implementation, which AFAIK provides
i/o and editor capabilities.
You could write an editor Applet that runs in the browser assuming you can
rely on Swing being available in the browser or it's practical to download
it with the Applet.
I'd be tempted to use HTML (or XML) as the text format rather than RTF...
HTH,
Steve
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