Thanks for the answer Massimo,

We discarded MS Word to HTML conversion because we have problems with the
code generated (we have a kind of preview in HTML)

Thanks to mention Reportlab, we are using xhtml2pdf Pisa tool.

Cheers


On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Massimo Di Pierro <
[email protected]> wrote:

> MS Word documents can be easily be converted to HTML because Word can
> export to HTML. The resulting HTML is terrible and not humanly readable,
> but works.
> If you use markmin notice in web2py there is a
> gluon.contrib.markmin.markmin2pdf which is designed to generate documents.
> markmin is more powerful then markdown.
> You may also want to look into reportlab.
>
> On Wednesday, 26 March 2014 11:16:40 UTC-5, Omar Meat Boy Gutiérrez wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'd like to discuss with you about your experience with document
>> templates.
>>
>> *I have the next problem:*
>>
>> a) A customer want to generate different kinds of documents. He creates
>> the `templates` using programs like Word.
>> b) I receive the document and I need to convert it to HTML.
>>
>> *What I need is the next:*
>>
>> A tool intended to be used by the customer where he can to generate
>> `templates` adding special fields, tables, titles.
>>
>> My boss is thinking in use markmin, I guess markdown is also a good
>> choice.
>>
>> According to your experience, what other tool can be used? Is it markmin
>> a good choice? Am I missing something?
>>
>> Greetings
>>
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