Steve, One alternative is to convert the file to a PDF and display the PDF. There is a free PDF Viewer Delphi component from Synactis which is essentially a wrapper for the Adobe Reader. There are several alternatives for getting from Word to a PDF. The expensive one (which I have) is Adobe Acrobat, however there are freeware and shareware alternatives out there. One that I use is the PDF creator built into OpenOffice, the open source alternative to MS Office. Compared to Acrobat it is incredibly fast converting Writer documents and it will preserve links which will work in the resulting PDF. The downside is that Oo does not do a perfect import of Word files and tinkering with the result will be necessary. Most of it is improper spacing.
Jerry -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Bowker Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 7:25 AM To: delphi elists Subject: MSWord VCL component Hi, I have a MS Word document that has text, pictures and hyperlinks in it. It is over 100 pages long, and is nearly 7mb in size. I want to distribute the content in a Delphi application because I want to have password security (and other features) built into it, and I already have a component for that. What I was wondering was if there is an existing Delphi component, or a freeware/shareware one that would allow me to copy all of the MS Word content, and paste it into a control in Delphi, and retain all the formatting etc. I can then compile the Delphi app. and have my own personalised .exe in ebook-like format. Regards, Steve _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi
