I am building an online application to prepare construction
specifications for an engineering company. I need the flexibility in
this application for a user to upload a set a custom specs, portions
(or all of which) would be in the final constructions specification. I
anticipate that most users will want to use an existing Word Document
to upload, and that many would not follow instructions and convert them
to RTF or Text, and it would be a bonus if I could convert the uploaded
files with some formating information embedded
I would also like to return a Word Doc (or perhaps a PDF file) as the
final product. There are many solutions for creating an OOo document
from scratch, the most robust I've seen so far is a Perl Module that
would allow me to read and reassemble OOo documents. It deals in the
native swx file format, so I'd need a way to return the .swx to .doc or
PDF.
I can also create a PDF from scratch, so if I have to write the
application and specify that users must convert Word documents to RTF,
I will.
Thanks for the reply. I'll take your advice and try the developers list.
Christopher Pryce
On Aug 11, 2005, at 8:25 PM, Paul wrote:
I suppose you can, but the question why would you want to. There are
inbuilt wizards that support the bulk transfer of documents from say,
.doc -> .sxw .... (since I'm assuming there is more than one that you
want to transfer).
If you want to do it programatically since you want to embed in
something else maybe the [email protected] mailing list can assist as
well.
/paul
On 8/12/05, Christopher Pryce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm new to Open Office, and a bit new to Command Line interfaces (I'm
a
Mac user).
If I had an OOo installation on a Linux box, can a I use a Perl
application to upload an MS Word file, and have this Perl application
call the shell to have Open Office translate the .doc file to an .swx
file?
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