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: "Anthony E. Glover" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 12:42:19 -0500
For PDF, check out pdfbox at http://www.pdfbox.org/
For Word, check out antiword at http://www.winfield.demon.nl/
Tony
Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
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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