First.. I apologize for power-reading your message and not really grasping everything you're trying to do. From the responses, it sounds like my vote would be for PDF as well, being a very universal format and very easy to work with and makes small enough for your needs. If a file is still too big, maybe look at Zip'ing it (you should be able to compress it with PHP.. forget if you need an additional library or not, but that's a viable option as well). But if you really need client side scripting and can't install Apache (or even if you can, but you're on a Windows box and don't want to have to), might I recommend http://www.winbinder.com Rubem has done a brilliant job making a native PHP environment for Windows using standard Windows API. Very similar to GTK, but not as clunky and ugly.. although Winbinder is really designed just for Windows environments, so no cross platforum client side GUI. But fantastic for Windows. Good luck, whatever you decide. And watch out for those female colleagues.. they tend to talk and one of them is bound to hear about your comments here :) -TG = = = Original message = = = Hi, I am looking for a solution to a server problem. I am part of a 2-person team - I look after document scanning, OCR (by outside agencies) as well as all development. My colleague is responsible for obtaining copyright permission from publishers (for what I do). Part of her process is sending emails to publishers with Word attachments. These are presently being generated by PHP on our NT server,but recently the process has started to slow down the server to the point of uselessness. I'm looking for an alternative way to do this. My colleague has rejected text file attachments as looking unprofessional. I would like to find a way of generating these files without actually needing to use COM, or winword on the server. We looked at RTF templates but found the filesize too great. One option I am considering is installing PHP on her PC and doing the letter generation locally, but don't know how I'm going to trigger it esp as our IT person has said I can't install Apache. Doe anyone have any suggestions? Cheers George, an Englishman abroad in sunny Edinburgh ___________________________________________________________ Sent by ePrompter, the premier email notification software. Free download at http://www.ePrompter.com. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
