Re: Converting HTML to DOC

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Re^2: Converting HTML to DOC by LanX (Saint) on Apr 08, 2010 at 18:12 UTC
Did you try to google, to see what fits your needs "html to word" perl? IMHO there is no trivial answer to such a general question! Word-doc is effectively a print format like PDF, HTML is a multi device format, that means you have to decide what the print-version has to look like, where the page breaks are, font-sizes ... and so on. Furthermore word-doc is (was???) a closed proprietary format, converting to RTF is much easier and better supported. If you just want the default formating MS-Word produces you should simply use it's API and script the load and save-as. Cheers Rolf UPDATE: IIRC word-doc can embed HTML-Objects. And I wouldn't be surprised if the IE has a feature to export word-doc, so maybe another approach to script it...	[reply]

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Re^2: Converting HTML to DOC
by LanX (Saint) on Apr 08, 2010 at 18:12 UTC

IMHO there is no trivial answer to such a general question!

Word-doc is effectively a print format like PDF, HTML is a multi device format, that means you have to decide what the print-version has to look like, where the page breaks are, font-sizes ... and so on.

Furthermore word-doc is (was???) a closed proprietary format, converting to RTF is much easier and better supported.

If you just want the default formating MS-Word produces you should simply use it's API and script the load and save-as.

Cheers Rolf

UPDATE: IIRC word-doc can embed HTML-Objects. And I wouldn't be surprised if the IE has a feature to export word-doc, so maybe another approach to script it...

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