Magnus,
I have a set of external methods that do just what you want, The documents are converted into a XMLDocument put into Zope and are then searchable via ZCatalog.
The script runs on NT since it uses a com interface to Word to do the work.
Works beautifully though.
http://media-1.ml.uwcm.ac.uk/test/frameset to see it.
If you would like a look at the scripts, mail me privately.
HTH
Phil phil@wigwamweb.net
|>-----Original Message----- |>From: magnus@vuab.net [mailto:magnus@vuab.net] |>Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 1:27 PM |>To: zope@zope.org |>Subject: [Zope] MSWord Product... |> |> |> |>Hi. |> |>I have a bunch of MS Word 97 files that I want to put onto the web, into |>Zope. They can be converted to html, pdf or remain as doc, I dont really |>care. But I want to keep the layout, fonts etc. Saving as html in word |>doesnt do that very well. |> |>Is this possible somehow? I guess I want a catalogaware MSWord Product |>or something... but is there any way to provide a search interface? |> |>/Magnus Heino
Another option is the word->html conversion program. I don't have the url but just search on (www.freshmeat.net) The results I have seen are reasonably good, probably not perfect though. If layout it critical I would suggesting converting to PDF using the Adobe Acrobat (unfortuntely this is quite expensive :( ) Benno