[Zope] MSWord Product...

[Loren Stafford]

http://www.nzdl.org/cgi-bin/gw?a=page&p=Prescript

> -----Original Message-----
> From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Rik
> Hoekstra
> Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 13:26
> To: Phillip J. Eby; Zope@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope] MSWord Product...
> 
> 
> Date sent:      	Wed, 03 Nov 1999 13:29:03 -0500
> To:             	benno@sesgroup.net, Phil Harris <phil@wigwamweb.net>
> From:           	"Phillip J. Eby" <pje@telecommunity.com>
> Subject:        	Re: [Zope] MSWord Product...
> Copies to:      	magnus@vuab.net, zope@zope.org
> 
> > At 05:01 AM 11/4/99 +1100, Ben Leslie wrote:
> > >
> > >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 :( )
> > >
> > 
> > There is another way to do that.  Print to file using a 
> Postscript driver
> > from Word, then load the result into GhostScript/GSView (free, 
> open source)
> > and generate a PDF.  Voila.  It's a bit less convenient than 
> Acrobat, but
> > for many files it actually runs faster than Acrobat.
> > 
> 
> And anyway the double step postscript->pdf is generally assumed 
> produce the best results for Acrobat as well. The direct conversion 
> word->acrobat is just convenient. 
> 
> Note also that if you want to access/catalog the pdf contents as well 
> you could use an existing python product (not zope related), called 
> prescript. I do not have the url handy at the moment, but it should 
> easily be found on the python website (www.python.org)
> 
> Rik
>