Re: display pdf,rtf,word,postscript files in browser
Re: display pdf,rtf,word,postscript files in browser
- Subject: Re: display pdf,rtf,word,postscript files in browser
- From: Jonathan Rochkind <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 12:09:31 -0500
Converting plain text to HTML is relatively easy. You just need to replace
line breaks with the neccesary <BR> and <P> tags, escape any special HTML
chars ('<', '>', and '&') and there you go, you've got your plain text
converted to HTML.
Converting from rtf, word, or postscript to HTML is not at all easy. It's
a complex task that you probably do not want to write a solution for
yourself. Nothing is built into WO to do it for you. You'd want to look
for a third-party solution, ideally written in Java, either free or
commercial, to do that conversion. I'm not personally familiar with what
solutions are out there and how good they are at what cost, but it might be
useful to search the list archives (and for the
email@hidden list). There have been past discussions on
that, especially for PDF (although that isn't one of the ones you
mentioned, although it's kind of like postscript).
But it's a somewhat complex problem, and not really related to WO. If you
can find any solution at all that does it, you can integrate your solution
with WO. A Java solution that works in 1.3.1 would be easiest, but
anything is possible.
--Jonathan
At 09:51 AM 9/9/2003 -0700, Milly Strelzoff wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to develop a webobjects app where people
can upload rtf, word,postscript,text files to a
database repository and then look at them in a
browser, by converting to html since all the userbase
machines may not be configured to display some of
these in a broswer.
Is there any way that can be done.
thanks
Milly
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