Re: Creating Word Documents

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"Brian Cryer" <brianc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Am I right in assuming that using Automation to generate word documents is
a bad idea for a webserver?

You are completely correct in that. In fact, it's such a bad idea that
Microsoft won't support any application which does it:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q257757#kb2

I've always had the impression that with Excel the single threaded nature
of it meant it was unsuitable for all but the lightest use on a webserver
and I'm making the assumption that the same applies to Word. Am I right?

Yes you are. Do a search in the newsgroup for the thread entitled
"Automation of Word from .net 2" - you might find it interesting reading...
:-)

Also, does anyone know of any alternatives for generating a word document?
(Text + Images + ideally some formatting)

There are several, varying in price and difficulty.

1) Use HTML
Create an HTML document and give it a Word extension - Word will open it
just like a native Word document. This is completely free and very simple.

2) Use XML
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=fe118952-3547-420a-a412-00a2662442d9&displaylang=en
or the equivalent for Office 2007. Again, this is completely free, but will
involve a fair bit of work, especially if you're not familiar with XML.

3) Use Aspose
http://www.aspose.com/Products/Aspose.Words/Default.aspx This is a
commercial product, but very simple.


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