[Zope] m$ word question

[Stephan Richter]

On Friday 19 July 2002 20:02, Greg Conway wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is it possible to run M$ Word from within Zope? I've done a bit of
> searching but found suprisingly little, I would have thought this was
> something lots of people wanted to do?

Only in Windows using COM.

> Anyway, what I want to do exactly is call Word with a stream of data, to
> perform a Mail Merge. I'm converting some script that already runs in
> Visual Basic, is it possible to get a Visual Basic script plug-in for Zop=
e?
> Sorry if that sounds a little crazy, I'm still learning!

Well, but be aware that COM was not really written for a server-client=20
architecture. When I wrote the SilvaXML2DOC converter, we found that it wou=
ld=20
really hard to incorporate the code directly into a Zioe environment.