Hi Andy, I've looked through the thread and can't see specifically what you're trying to do but we had exactly the same problem and was solved using RTF, thus:
(this was for submission of documents to a UK government body that needed to be in MS Word .DOC format - they were able to open these documents with no problem in Word: edit, print, save etc.). We used RTF for the document - generated manually in MS Word and exported to a .RTF - and used placeholders to hold active data that was to be inserted into the template of format "[oTbl.Field]" (allowable in RTF - and replaced these using (MS) reg ex of format "\[\S[^\[]*\]"). This then gave us an RTF format document which was then saved with the extension .DOC - which MS Word opens with no problem at all. This was in fact sent to the browser by adding a header "content-disposition" of type "attachment; filename=""WORD.DOC""" and also specifying the "ContentType" of "application/rtf". Saving this document saves the document in "Word" .DOC although it is really an RTF. Not sure it's what you're after but after battling trying to open MS Word on the server - which needs administrator privileges for the user running the web app (scary) or using vbscript/javascript in the browser (requires the site to be added to IE "Trusted Sites") - not ideal. The solution outlined, using RTF is not dependent on the browser used and the above solution is being used to generate around 200-300 (probably more) "MS Word" .DOC files a week which are emailed directly to the UK government body. Let me know if this is an option for you - and if you need any more info but BTW the above was implemented in MS ASP so I can only send you some ASP/VBScript code if that will help. H. -----Original Message----- From: Andy Richards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 18 February 2003 14:12 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: microsoft .doc struts Hi, I have read with interest from the struts archives where a user posted the following question to do with producing microsoft .doc files for clients. See: http://www.mail-archive.com/struts-user@jakarta.apache.org/msg58536.html Peter S. Hamlen: posted a follow up talking about using office 2000 html, see: http://www.mail-archive.com/struts-user@jakarta.apache.org/msg58536.html What i cant understand and i am hoping that someone will be able to help me, is that once you have parsed the .html template ie with velocity, then how do you convert the html back to a .doc file. I could provide for download the html pages, but the images i want to include would be seperate from the html file. I am trying to think of a tidier way? looking down the thread .rtf format is not the easiest, and POI is in a early release. Anyone know what i can do? or have any suggestions? dont worry i made my point about cross platform and proprietory .doc, doc is what the client wants, and therefor .doc is what i am having to try and give. Regards Andy --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
