How can this be done?
Doug
I have an online employee evaluation system, the employees manager can
currently get his/her "employee" report as a web page. I need to be able to
offer the report as an editable document (RTF,DOC). The site is php &
mysql on a linux system. I know I can easily offer a PDF file, but PDF's
are not editable (unless you have software). My customers use windows
machines so an RTF or DOC file would be best.
I have tried 2 html to rtf converters (all I could find) but they do not do
a quality job (not even close). Has anyone else had this problem?
Thanks for any suggestions,
Doug
do...@essex3.com
Henrik Hansen
> Here is the scenario:
>
> I have an online employee evaluation system, the employees manager can
> currently get his/her "employee" report as a web page. I need to be able to
> offer the report as an editable document (RTF,DOC). The site is php &
> mysql on a linux system. I know I can easily offer a PDF file, but PDF's
> are not editable (unless you have software). My customers use windows
> machines so an RTF or DOC file would be best.
If you are on a windows server you can use COM to create word documents.
> I have tried 2 html to rtf converters (all I could find) but they do not do
> a quality job (not even close). Has anyone else had this problem?
depends on how complicated the html are. Maybe create a PDF and
convert that, dont know if more converters exist for that.
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CJ Llewellyn
with two fingers:
>"Doug" <do...@essex3.com> wrote:
>
> > Here is the scenario:
>>
> > I have an online employee evaluation system, the employees manager can
> > currently get his/her "employee" report as a web page. I need to be able to
> > offer the report as an editable document (RTF,DOC). The site is php &
> > mysql on a linux system. I know I can easily offer a PDF file, but PDF's
> > are not editable (unless you have software). My customers use windows
> > machines so an RTF or DOC file would be best.
>
>If you are on a windows server you can use COM to create word documents.
If you are not using a windos server then you can create windows
scripting host files on the server and download them to the manager's
PC to create the documents on the fly.
Otherwise you could set up a document that reads its data from the web
server via XML.
Regards, CJ Llewellyn
http://www.cjllewellyn.org.uk/
http://www.north-lincolnshire.com/
Jason
> scripting host files on the server and download them to the manager's
>PC to create the documents on the fly.
HI CJ
Do you know of any links or resources where I would find out how to create
windows scripting host files and have them downloaded and run in the local
browser ?
Thanks
Jason
http://www.widgetsworld.co.uk
CJ Llewellyn
with two fingers:
>> If you are not using a windos server then you can create windows
>> scripting host files on the server and download them to the manager's
>>PC to create the documents on the fly.
>
>HI CJ
>
>Do you know of any links or resources where I would find out how to create
>windows scripting host files and have them downloaded and run in the local
>browser ?
Well there is a whole bunch of documentation for Windows Scripting
Host @ http://www.microsoft.com/, you should also read Word's VBA
documentation as most of the work you'll be doing is working with
Word's COM object model.
is a very good book for learning WSH, but anybody with BASIC
programming skills can soon start hacking code.
http://www.bme.ie/index.php?m=PHP-APP-DL&language=en
Shows how to get a file to download.
You'll need to educate users into saving or running the file from the
server.
LiHui
Paggard
http://paggard.dlight.ru/rtf_gen/
here is the RTF Generator.