RE: Infoprint Designer, MS Word; a related question

Well, I understand that part of the Jakarta POI project includes the HWPF 
(Horrible Word Processing Format) but that this particular project is standing 
still.  I think part of the problem is that MS changes their documant formats 
with every release, so these open source projects to reverse engineer the MS 
document flavors get stale pretty quickly.

Can you use RTF documents instead of .doc?  Or, with the advent of new "open" 
standards, could you use ODF (OASIS Open Document Format for Office 
Applications) or OOXML (Office Open XML)?  RTF is technically a proprietary 
format, but one that has been adopted widely, while the other two are open 
standards, but may not be fully supported in older Office products from MS.....

I suspect RTF would be the easiest and best supported approach.

Eric

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Darrell A Martin
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 10:40 AM
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Subject: Re: Infoprint Designer, MS Word; a related question


Greetings:

Can someone point me to a relevant thread on this list, or any Web 
resources, that deal specifically with generating a document (most likely 
on the IFS) in MS Word format *DIRECTLY* from a program running on the 
Series i? That is, *WITHOUT* an intervening, independent spool file that 
has to be manipulated? I know this has probably been discussed before, but 
doing a search creates a blizzard of false positives almost as bad as 
what's on I-80 through the Midwest right now.

Darrell

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