Posted by Brent Baisley on 05/25/05 19:04

I've only read about being able to generate a Word document if you are
running under Windows (which I am not). I gave up long ago trying to
figure out the rtf spec to auto generate Word documents. I do exactly
what you do, except I generate HTML instead and attach a .doc to the
file. The Word document actually ends up being larger than the HTML
document, but I don't do all that much formatting.
What you are looking for is something like the opposite of AntiWord,
unless AntiWord has a reverse option.

On May 25, 2005, at 8:50 AM, 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?
>
> MTIA
>
>
> George
>
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Brent Baisley
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