Bummer. I can't use RTF because the documents contain tables, and I'm
pretty much stuck with that. I'll use my own FORMalizer utility to
overlay fields on a PNG of the blank document and fill them in that
way. I was exploring other possibilities...
-- Peter
Peter M. Brigham
[email protected]
http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig
On Jun 12, 2009, at 9:24 AM, Jan Schenkel wrote:
The Word file format is binary, and may contain checksums that will
not add up when you replace something in it. It's better to save the
Word file as an RTF document (as this is not a binary, but text-
based file format) and fill that up instead.
You may want to use the 'merge' function to make your life easier -
see also the articles that I wrote for the RevUp Newsletter:
- The Power of Merge (revUp | Issue 55 | August 18th, 2008)
<http://runrev.com/newsletter/august/issue55/newsletter2.php>
- The Word of Merge - part 1 (revUp | Issue 61 | November 20th, 2008)
<http://runrev.com/newsletter/november/issue61/newsletter3.php>
- The Word of Merge - part 2 (revUp | Issue 62 | December 22nd, 2008)
<http://runrev.com/newsletter/december/issue62/newsletter3.php>
HTH,
Jan Schenkel
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time." (La Rochefoucauld)
--- On Fri, 6/12/09, Peter Brigham MD <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Peter Brigham MD <[email protected]>
Subject: storing a Word document as a customprop
To: "Use-rev mailing list" <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, June 12, 2009, 5:55 AM
I would like to generate a Word doc
stored in a customprop but I'd like to modify it first by
script. I have a template successfully stored as the
printDoc of this stack, with placeholders in applicable
places like "<last>", "<first>", etc. However,
this doesn't work:
on mouseup
put fld "Name" into tName
put item 1 of tName into lastName
put word 1 of item 2 of tName into
firstName
put the printDoc of this stack into tDoc
replace "<last>" with lastName in
tDoc -- * problem
replace "<first>" with firstName in
tDoc -- * problem
put the printPath of this stack into
pPath
-- contains something like
"binfile:/Users/pmbrig/Desktop/wordTest.doc"
set the itemdelimiter to "/"
put tolower(lastName) & ".doc" into
item -1 of pPath
set the filetype to "MSWDW8BN"
put tDoc into url pPath
end mouseup
I get an error from the finder that the file "doesn't
appear to be a Microsoft Word file." If I comment out the
two "replace" lines in the script, the original template
file is exported fine, and it opens fine in Word with a
double-click. So there's something Word doesn't like about
the replace operation. Is there any way to do this so I
create the template document modified with data filled in
from Rev?
-- Peter
Peter M. Brigham
[email protected]
http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig
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