Posted by Neredbojias on 08/04/05 12:17

With neither quill nor qualm, Serious_Practitioner quothed:

> Good day, and thank you in advance for any assistance.
>
> I have very little experience with any sort of Web design product, HTML
> editor...any of this. I'm more of a database person. If I'm asking for
> something simple, please forgive me and tell me where to look. I'm using MS
> Front Page 2003. Here's what I want to accomplish -
>
> I've begun to design a Web page that will allow users to either download one
> of several files or look at it. The files are all Word 2000 .doc files. In
> my innocence, I figured that, with the proper code, I could make the Word
> file come into a page when the page was loaded. So, for instance, you want
> to view the contents of file1.doc, you'd click on an image, a new page would
> open and the
> file would be imported at that time, perhaps into a text box or table cell..
>
> I have the download part working using .pdf files. What I am looking for is
> a way to get the contents of file1.doc to be loaded into a page, for
> viewing, as the page is loading, like images are loaded. My thought is that
> I have a .doc, a .pdf and a page to maintain if the file contents change; if
> the .doc file can be made to load into a new page as the page loads, I only
> have to maintain the .doc file in the future, convert it to .pdf and upload
> both of them to the server to be used appropriately. Less time spent and no
> messing with the Web pages themselves. I can import the .doc files into new
> pages when I create them, but then the pages have to be edited every time I
> do an import, because there seems to be a severe loss of formatting, at
> least with FP. I'm looking for a way around that.
>
> I hope this makes sense. Thank you for your assistance.

Server-side scripting is made for this. Look into PHP.

--
Neredbojias
Contrary to popular belief, it is believable.

[Back to original message]