A question was posed to me which I am not able to answer, so I turn to you, my brethren.

How the hell do I export something as an MS Word doc if I'm running on Linux? Most of the available modules on the CPAN are in the Win32 namespace. RTF might be OK, but I'm not familiar with this area, so I can't say. The only thing I know about it is that folks constantly complain that RTF screws up their formatting.

The scenario is like this: text is edited in a web-based WYSIWYG editor and people need to be able to export that text in MS Word format. These people are unknown up front so telling them "you can't use MS Word" is not an option, however, it's possible that Web-based WYSIWIG editors are so limited that maybe RTF can handle it all? (Side note, I can't even tell you which WYSIWIG editor because it's still being evaluated.)

Cheers,
Ovid

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In reply to Running Linux but Exporting as MS Word? by Ovid

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