The original email stated that the objective was to achieve a mail merge
with Oracle.
If Oracle is V8 on NT you can use the proprietary Oracle-COM bridge provided
as part of the server software that allows you to manipulate COM objects
from within the DB via PLSQL.
The server documentation covers how to do this quite clearly and includes
samples for Word, Excel and MAPI.
Not that I'd ever really recommend using Word OLE Automation as a server
solution for anything *industrial-strength*.
As for the RTF solution - if you are using Word 2000 it has support for HTML
as a native file format. You might find it easier to manipulate the Word
document as HTML rather than RTF.
There are many other options - for an open community approach check out the
FOP project at Apache. This could let you transform XML (easily produced by
DB) into PDF - not really ready for prime time in my opinion but worth
watching...
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