Posted by Rory Browne on 05/25/05 21:28

If it were that important, then you could probably figure out a way to
get OOo, to do it through Uno.

On 5/25/05, Brent Baisley <brent@landover.com> wrote:
> 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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