I use pdfFactory Pro from Fineprint software.  I can create password
protected PDF files for distribution.  

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Jerry Clancy
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 12:13 PM
To: Borland's Delphi Discussion List
Subject: RE: MSWord VCL component

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
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