Andreas Mohr wrote:
> 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.
>
Yes, correct.
>
> 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...
>
The problem is that I want to do this using Linux. I could use VBA to create
documents
when running Windows but I don't want to.
But I am not sure whether I could link the Wine lib to my Linux program,
dynamically open Windows DLLs and use functions found within?!
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