Re^2: Seeking Comments & Feedback on Word/PDF project

When I talk about using Word, I mean using Template Toolkit to generate a few XML files that get zipped into a Word .docx file.

If I kept LaTeX, I would still have to fight it to make it look like the existing Word template (the existing scripts use an outdated format).

I also have no choice in keeping LaTeX - nobody on my team wants anything to do with it, and being the temp, even if I did want it, I couldn't keep it.

Kaiti

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Re^3: Seeking Comments & Feedback on Word/PDF project by Marshall (Canon) on Mar 18, 2010 at 00:24 UTC
It appears these folks like Word, have a standard template that will set margins, and paragraph formats, fonts and all that stuff. I would be thinking along the lines of using Win32::OLE and control WinWord from Perl to insert your data into their template. The result will be a standard WinWord doc that you can direct Word to print as .pdf, XML or whatever. Trying to create a Winword doc yourself is a nightmare as will creating a .pdf that will have same look as their document format. I don't know complex this data/project is, but in the past I had one project where I wrote a Word macro that imported my data file, whopped on it and produced a report. The pre-processing was just enough for this Word macro to do its job. So it wasn't necessary for me to write Perl to control Word, just make a file simple enough that my Word Macro could use. Just an idea to consider...	[reply]
Re^4: Seeking Comments & Feedback on Word/PDF project by jedikaiti (Hermit) on Mar 18, 2010 at 15:23 UTC
I'll have to look into that, thanks! That's a really good idea, and one that hadn't even occurred to me. Kaiti	[reply]