Re: How to fetch .DOC or .DOCX file in php

Andrew Ballard wrote: > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Jim Lucas <lists@cmsws.com> wrote: >> I was going to say that I haven't yet decided on what the final output format is going >> to be. Probably either rtf or OpenXML. >> >> How about I ask for suggestions on what would be the best format to store the final copy. >> >> I figured that this tool would mainly be used for .doc to web conversion, but I guess it >> could be used to also convert to other document formats too. >> >> But, I would like to have the ability to at least store the formating inline with the text. >> So, either some form of xml. Be it (x)HTML or plain XML >> or even OpenXML. >> >> A question to all then. How would you like to see the text, with formating, stored? >> >> All suggestions welcome! >> >> -- >> Jim Lucas >> > > It's an excellent start. It pulled in some additional control > characters in some of the documents I tried, and some documents had > extra stuff at the end of the document. It was still text, but it > looked like the text from the page header/footer definitions. It would > be cool to see this polished and released. I just wish there was > something this basic that worked this well on PDF files! :-) > > Andrew > Ah, a part that I hadn't yet thought about checking to see if they would have been included. Like I said, this is just the starting spot. I will continue hacking at this thing. Hopefully something good will come of it... :) -- Jim Lucas "Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V by William Shakespeare