Word or RTF

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#23 Word or RTF

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Owner: Stewart Evans

Labels: Document Type (80)

Priority: 3

Updated: 2002-11-10

Created: 2001-11-06

Creator: Anonymous

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Because so many recruiters and HR departments expect
resumes in Microsft Word format (unfortunately), it
would be nice to be able to translate the XML format to
that.

I've begun some preliminary work on trying to convert
to RTF, and I've discovered that the RTF format is a
convoluted mess. I'll let you know if I come up with
anything useful.

--Bruce

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Nobody/Anonymous - 2001-11-29

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I have been using the HTML output and pulling this in to MS
Word. It comes out Ok.

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Stewart Evans - 2001-12-09

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I'm also looking into this.

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Stewart Evans - 2001-12-09

assigned_to: nobody --> stewarte
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Nobody/Anonymous - 2002-01-07

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Sorry: I submitted my request (500253) before I saw this
one. But my request does add another possibility that
doesn't seem to have been considered for this one, i.e.
using Formatting Objects (FO) as an intermediate output,
and then applying jfor to produce RTF that can be loaded
into MS Word.

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Sean Kelly - 2002-01-14

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Another possibility is to use Jade, a freeware DSSSL
system. Jade can produce RTF directly. Problem is, does
anyone besides a select, elite few know DSSSL?

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Sean Kelly - 2002-01-14

priority: 5 --> 7
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Sean Kelly - 2002-01-14

priority: 7 --> 8
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Roy Rico - 2002-01-16

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Ms word has the ability to read in HTML files as *.doc
files if you add content-type and content-deposition
headrers in PHP. I am working on a class for creating word
documents from PHP, and intend to use XMLresume + my class
to create HTML (2 different version) and Word resume's from
a single XML file

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Stewart Evans - 2002-01-18

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jfor seems like to me like the best way to go. I've done
some hacking on a custom rtf.xsl but it's uuuugly stuff.
The plan is to integrate jfor into FOP; that's good for us,
since we depend on FOP already.

I tried using jfor 0.5.1 and the results weren't entirely
satisfactory, but I haven't done the homework to determine
what exactly are the problems. It may be that some of them
could be worked around by changing the way we generate the
FO document.

I don't know DSSSL and that approach seems not much less
complex than writing our own RTF stylesheet...

Incidentally, I assigned this item to myself only in an
effort to coordinate and minimize duplication of effort.
Please don't anyone take it as me wanting to hog all the
fun. ;-)

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Stewart Evans - 2002-01-18

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jfor seems like to me like the best way to go. I've done
some hacking on a custom rtf.xsl but it's uuuugly stuff.
The plan is to integrate jfor into FOP; that's good for us,
since we depend on FOP already.

I tried using jfor 0.5.1 and the results weren't entirely
satisfactory, but I haven't done the homework to determine
what exactly are the problems. It may be that some of them
could be worked around by changing the way we generate the
FO document.

I don't know DSSSL and that approach seems not much less
complex than writing our own RTF stylesheet...

Incidentally, I assigned this item to myself only in an
effort to coordinate and minimize duplication of effort.
Please don't anyone take it as me wanting to hog all the
fun. ;-)

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Paul Flynn - 2002-04-18

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POI (specifically the HDF component) from Apache might be
of some help.
--snip--
HDF (Horrible Document Format)
HDF is our port of the Microsoft Word 97 file format to
pure Java. It supports read and write capability. Please
see the HDF project page for more information. This
component is in the early stages of design. Jump in!
--snip--
http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/

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James Manning - 2002-07-25

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http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=586331&group_id=29512&atid=396337

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Bruce Christensen - 2002-07-27

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http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=586177&group_id=29512&atid=396338
has been marked as a dup of this. It recommended using jfor.

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Zoltan Leskowsky - 2002-09-13

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I'm the "nobody" who first suggested the possibility of using
jfor (2002-01-06 23:55) for this project. This is probably a
dumb question, but has there been any coordination with the
jfor developers as far as adding support for any further RTF
constructs needed (or wanted) for this feature? Because I see
that they're at version 0.7, and they still have only partial
support for at least some constructs.

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Mark Miller - 2002-11-10

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1.5.0 now has Makefile support for using jfor or xmlmind to
convert to RTF. I'm going to keep this discussion open in
case anybody wants to submit problems using either of these
packages.

mark

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Mark Miller - 2002-11-10

priority: 8 --> 3
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Abdelkrim - 2003-02-25

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Hi nobobdy :-)
Just load the html file into word and save it.

A.

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Mick Weiss - 2003-12-26

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I think that the best way is still to just *say* that its a
doc file and just generate the HTML and have it have a .doc
extention

Has anyone had any issues with that? It seems to work very well.

- Mick

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