Well guys, thanks for the feedback. Firstly, I am on Windows, and my server runs on NT4. I have no say on that - company policy. The files are not zipped in any way as they are being sent to publishers' rights departments, who struggle with PDFs at times. I think I'll give COM a try. I do use it to parse an Excel file that we receive in a predefined format. Cheers George > -----Original Message----- > From: Rory Browne [mailto:rory.browne@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 26 May 2005 2:47 am > To: Jochem Maas > Cc: George Pitcher; php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Building multi-page Word docs with PHP? > > > Before we get ahead of ourselves, can we ask what OS you're using George? > > If you're using Windows, then you have COM. If you're not insane, then > you'll have to use unix tools. For turning documents TO word docs, > then the only way I can think of is to script OOo in some way. > > I'm assuming that you're already gzipping your rtf files? > > On 5/26/05, Jochem Maas <jochem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > George Pitcher wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I currently create my multipage docs by saving my word > templates as chunks > > > of rtf and then calling them as required as a very long string then > > > outputting them to an rtf file and renaming it as '*.doc'. It > works great > > > except for the filesize which comes out at 900k for a > two-page document. > > > Opening in Word and saving reduces the file down > dramatically, but that > > > would prevent auto-generation and emailing - without human > intervention. > > > > > > Does anyone know how to either create multipage docs in Word > format to begin > > > with, or to convert (on the fly) rtf to doc, or to save rtf > as smaller file? > > > > I googled a bit a stumbled across this: > > > > http://www.xmlw.ie/aboutxml/wordml.htm > > > > requires word2003 tho. > > > > > > > > MTIA > > > > > > > > > George > > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
