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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
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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? By: Michael Galloy on Mon, 11 May 2009 10:02
		Re: Can IDL be used to generate microsoft word documents automatically? By: Norbert Hahn on Mon, 11 May 2009 07:43
		Re: Can IDL be used to generate microsoft word documents automatically? By: R.Bauer on Mon, 11 May 2009 04:53

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