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Re: Can IDL be used to generate microsoft word documents automatically? [message #66417]

Mon, 11 May 2009 10:02

Michael Galloy
Messages: 1114
Registered: April 2006

Senior Member

Reimar Bauer wrote:
> Dave schrieb:
>> Dear people:
>> Everyday, i have lots of word documents to produce, which have the
>> same forms but different text and image contents. Please tell me if
>> there are any ways to using IDL to generate word automatically? thanks
>> a lot.
>>
>> dave
>
> Hi Dace
>
> May be the easiest solution is to generate html and read that by word
> and create a word file from that. Or if you don't mind put it on a
> webserver.
>
> You may be interested in the html tools of our lib
>
> http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg-1/idl_icglib/idl_source/idl _html/idl_work_idl_work.routines.category.htm#46
>
> cheers
> Reimar

Another way to generate HTML (or any other text based format) would be
to use templates:

http://michaelgalloy.com/2007/01/11/template-class.html
http://michaelgalloy.com/2007/02/12/report-generation-more-a bout-templates.html
http://michaelgalloy.com/2008/01/31/an-object-oriented-templ ate-class.html

Mike
--
www.michaelgalloy.com
Associate Research Scientist
Tech-X Corporation

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Re: Can IDL be used to generate microsoft word documents automatically? [message #66424 is a reply to message #66417]

Mon, 11 May 2009 07:43

Norbert Hahn
Messages: 46
Registered: May 2003

Member

Reimar Bauer <R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de> wrote:

> Dave schrieb:
>> Dear people:
>> Everyday, i have lots of word documents to produce, which have the
>> same forms but different text and image contents. Please tell me if
>> there are any ways to using IDL to generate word automatically? thanks
>> a lot.
>>
>> dave
>
> Hi Dace
>
> May be the easiest solution is to generate html and read that by word
> and create a word file from that. Or if you don't mind put it on a
> webserver.

An alternative format is Rich Text Format (rtf) that supports close
control of page layout. A long time ago I used IDL to generate rtf
files from WordStar documents. I used Word to export a rtf prototype
to get the documents structure set.

Norbert

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Re: Can IDL be used to generate microsoft word documents automatically? [message #66432 is a reply to message #66424]

Mon, 11 May 2009 04:53

R.Bauer
Messages: 1424
Registered: November 1998

Senior Member

Dave schrieb:
> Dear people:
> Everyday, i have lots of word documents to produce, which have the
> same forms but different text and image contents. Please tell me if
> there are any ways to using IDL to generate word automatically? thanks
> a lot.
>
> dave

Hi Dace

May be the easiest solution is to generate html and read that by word
and create a word file from that. Or if you don't mind put it on a
webserver.

You may be interested in the html tools of our lib

http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg-1/idl_icglib/idl_source/idl _html/idl_work_idl_work.routines.category.htm#46

cheers
Reimar

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