[Zope] Re: Opening .doc files in zope

[Josef Meile]

> The short answer is "it depends".  To make such files generally available 
> you have to convert them to HTML so arbirary browsers can access them.  
> You can use MS Word to do the conversion.  If your Zope is running on a 
> Windows machine that also has Word, you can manage the conversion 
> dynamically using an External Method or a Product (which you'd have to 
> write).  Alternatively, you could store the MS Word document in it's XML
> form and use that to drive the rendering.   If you are not interested in 
> general availability and you users are all running Windows with Word 
> installed, you can configure IE, I believe, to render Word documents 
> directly.
In addition, you could use the wmWare libraries to convert the word
files to html/pdf, but they don't work well with complicated word
documents. You can download there here:

http://wvware.sourceforge.net                   -> linux
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wv.htm -> Windows

Regards,
Josef