storing a Word document as a customprop

[Peter Brigham MD]

Bummer. I can't use RTF because the documents contain tables, and I'm  
pretty much stuck with that. I'll use my own FORMalizer utility to  
overlay fields on a PNG of the blank document and fill them in that  
way. I was exploring other possibilities...

-- Peter

Peter M. Brigham
pmbrig at gmail.com
http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig


On Jun 12, 2009, at 9:24 AM, Jan Schenkel wrote:

>
> The Word file format is binary, and may contain checksums that will  
> not add up when you replace something in it. It's better to save the  
> Word file as an RTF document (as this is not a binary, but text- 
> based file format) and fill that up instead.
> You may want to use the 'merge' function to make your life easier -  
> see also the articles that I wrote for the RevUp Newsletter:
> - The Power of Merge (revUp | Issue 55 | August 18th, 2008)
>  <http://runrev.com/newsletter/august/issue55/newsletter2.php>
> - The Word of Merge - part 1 (revUp | Issue 61 | November 20th, 2008)
>  <http://runrev.com/newsletter/november/issue61/newsletter3.php>
> - The Word of Merge - part 2 (revUp | Issue 62 | December 22nd, 2008)
>  <http://runrev.com/newsletter/december/issue62/newsletter3.php>
>
> HTH,
>
> Jan Schenkel
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>
>
> --- On Fri, 6/12/09, Peter Brigham MD <pmbrig at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Peter Brigham MD <pmbrig at gmail.com>
>> Subject: storing a Word document as a customprop
>> To: "Use-rev mailing list" <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
>> Date: Friday, June 12, 2009, 5:55 AM
>> I would like to generate a Word doc
>> stored in a customprop but I'd like to modify it first by
>> script. I have a template successfully stored as the
>> printDoc of this stack, with placeholders in applicable
>> places like "<last>", "<first>", etc. However,
>> this doesn't work:
>>
>> on mouseup
>>    put fld "Name" into tName
>>    put item 1 of tName into lastName
>>    put word 1 of item 2 of tName into
>> firstName
>>    put the printDoc of this stack into tDoc
>>    replace "<last>" with lastName in
>> tDoc -- * problem
>>    replace "<first>" with firstName in
>> tDoc -- * problem
>>    put the printPath of this stack into
>> pPath
>>    -- contains something like
>> "binfile:/Users/pmbrig/Desktop/wordTest.doc"
>>    set the itemdelimiter to "/"
>>    put tolower(lastName) & ".doc" into
>> item -1 of pPath
>>    set the filetype to "MSWDW8BN"
>>    put tDoc into url pPath
>> end mouseup
>>
>> I get an error from the finder that the file "doesn't
>> appear to be a Microsoft Word file." If I comment out the
>> two "replace" lines in the script, the original template
>> file is exported fine, and it opens fine in Word with a
>> double-click. So there's something Word doesn't like about
>> the replace operation. Is there any way to do this so I
>> create the template document modified with data filled in
>> from Rev?
>>
>> -- Peter
>>
>> Peter M. Brigham
>> pmbrig at gmail.com
>> http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig
>>
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