Word has an OLE interface that allows you to create a document with all the
features that are otherwise available by using the Word application itself
(and more).
Aviad.
-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Mohr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 10:17 PM
To: Wine Devel
Subject: Re: creating word documents using Linux and Wine?
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 10:29:26AM -0400, michael cardenas wrote:
> You could just use abiword, or staroffice, or applixware...
Hmm ???
Obviously this isn't *at all* what he wants...
He's trying to find a way to automatically build .doc files within scripts,
I guess.
I don't really believe Microsoft built that capability into Word.
I don't know whether Word has a real API.
But it's said to be rather modular, so maybe that condition might be
fulfilled.
Maybe OLE/COM helps here.
Maybe you ought to find your way through the Word program/API by using such
tools as pedump on the program files and DLLs.
But don't expect that task of building some Word component (using Wine)
to be easy !
I'm pretty sure it isn't.
But I'm still curious:
what exactly do you need that doesn't allow for some other means
(document converter programs and such) to be used e.g. from a script ??
trying to use rather internal Word features for that task seems quite
strange
to me...
Andreas Mohr
