From: Alin Popa <alin.popa@...>
Date: 2007-03-02T18:54:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and MS WORD

Vlad E. wrote:
> Farrel Lifson wrote:
>  > Have a look at the Win32OLE libraries. Rather than creating MS Word
>> files directly you can automate an instance of Word to do it for you.
>> 
>> Farrel
> 
> Thanks a lot! I wanted exactly something like that. Besides, I seriously 
> doubt there's a library which works with MS Word files directly.

Hi Vlad,

Let me show you something regarding MSWord file format binding
http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/hwpf/index.html

These guys are trying to make something like you want, but, for java 
platform.
Anyway, the idea is that they named the project HWPF (Horrible Word 
Processor Format) :)
Now I think you know why they are not so many bindings for this format, 
it's a Horrible one. So, interacting with this kind of format, is not 
quite easy.

Sorry for ruby off-topic post.

All the best,

Alin

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