From: Peter Brigham MD <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: storing a Word document as a customprop
To: "How to use Revolution" <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, June 12, 2009, 7:01 AM
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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--- 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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