Re: Open Source document merging? -- with DOC? Did you miss the

[Erich Schroeder <erich@museum.state.il.us>]

There is an article on phpbuilder about creating word documents on the fly

http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/yunus20031124.php3

There are also some command-line programs that can do so on linux, but I 
forget right now.

The TinyButStrong OOo class creates openoffice documents based on a 
template, and again I seem to remember that there are command-line things 
that can output OO writer docs to word docs.

Also, there are several RTF generators for php:

http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/1805.html

http://www.paggard.com/projects/rtf.generator/

http://www.smartsystems.ro/rtfgen.html

Of these, the only one I've tried is TinyButStrong. It can create quite 
good looking documents. If your documents are fairly simple, then the rtf 
generators might be the best choice.

Erich


On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Michael Stephens wrote:

> OK, I'll try this again.
>
> I work for a non-profit organization that requires various other
> organizations from around the state to download documents from our web site,
> fill them out, and then submit them back to us electronically for funding
> purposes.
>
> One of the documents that sites fill out every quarter is for any changes in
> their programming or fiscal information. The document is fifteen pages but
> not every page is needed every quarter.
>
> I would like to set up something on our web page that allows the sites to
> select only the pages they need and then have the completed document created
> for them from only those pages. Currently all the forms are created in Word
> because that's how they've been for the past eight years. Since this is the
> first year I've been with the organization I'm working with the tools I have
> available to me and looking for alternatives that will do what I want.
>
> I don't care what format the documents start out in as long as the finished
> document is locked, password protected, has form fields for user data and
> can then be viewed by State of Illinois employees and is acceptable
> according to specifications laid down by the State of Illinois for publicly
> funded non-profit organizations for electronically maintained documents.
>
> Is there anything that can do this?
>
>
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