From: Danny van Bruggen <danny@...>
Date: 2002-08-23T03:43:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Win32 Scripting

Hey,

Here are some hints:
- use win32ole, browse some examples
- you'll probably instruct word to open a document, then save it as
rtf. Record a macro in word that does this, then look at it in the macro
editor. It will contain the calls that open and close documents :) These
are the same functions you will use in Ruby, with the occasional change in
punctuation. Let Ruby read the filenames, instruct Word to convert them.

Danny

On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, Sean Middleditch wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>  As someone who's barely touched a Windows system in 4 years, I'm in
> some need of help designed a "simple" script: we have some 100+
> documents saved in MS Word format.  We need them converted to RTF format
> (the Township I work for has a new policy, thanks to my boss and I,
> mandating all publicly available documents must be in portable and,
> preferably, open standard formats).
> 
>  Anyways... is there a way using the OLE thingy in Ruby (see my grasp of
> Windows terminology) to take a list of files, open and save them as RTF
> in Word, without having to do it manually?  I think there's a whole
> 'nother batch of crud that needs conversion besides just the web-site
> stuff I'm working on now.
> 
>  Thanks,
> Sean Etc.
> 
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