Re: Word 2 HTML

>From: Duncan <duncan.loxton@...>
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>To: "CFAussie Mailing List" <cfaussie@...>
>Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Word 2 HTML
>Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 06:39:50 +1100
>
>Thanks all, we are in a situation where we deal with a lot of users
>uploading documents, our clients then have to use them.
>
>For some reason the Word Plugin in IE doesnt just straight download
>the data, it breaks it up into 30kb packets and then has big time lag
>between them (like 600ms from the US).  This is way too slow,
>particularly when you think that a word doc has the entire history of
>the doc inside it (unwanted and unused info) and averages 1.5Mb on our
>systems.
>
>If you have to go through this everytime for 40 users, you are gonna
>get pissed.
>
>To top it all off it then hangs when closing the browser window.
>
>Now - we have thought about forcing the download - in pronciple this
>would be ok but would require retraining. And its not the best User
>experience, so we figure that if we can convert the doc to HTML then
>we alleviate the issue (and the unwanted data), if they need to see
>the original then they can d/l right?
>
>
>
>On 1/17/06, Brett Payne-Rhodes <brett@...> wrote:
> > Hi Duncan,
> >
> > I've build a system that uses FlashPaper as the word to pdf conversion
>engine, however the users are now complaining because the document margins
>aren't being maintained. And I'm buggered if I can work out why or how to
>fix it - so I can't vouch for the reliability!
> >
> > Let me know if you're interested and I can send you a bit more info!
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Brett
> > B)
> >
> > Duncan wrote:
> > > Could anyone point me in the direction of a reliable program that will
> > > convert a Word Doc to HTML? It is essential that we can interface with
> > > it from CF. Preferably 6.1.
> > >
> > >
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