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Script that converts Word to html

Author:	Tommy Sundström
Posted:	4/20/1999; 9:44:29 AM
Topic:	Processing Word as Input?
Msg #:	5136 (In response to 5114)
Prev/Next:	5135 / 5137

Here's an extremely simple script for mac that takes a word file, uses Word 98 to convert it to html, and puts it into a file.

To use it, you need

o Word 98. No windows open (specially not the window of the file you want to convert)

o Word 98 glue (this you can do yourself, there is a script in Frontier to produce it).

o A textfile named test.htm in the right location.

Naturally, this script can be made more functional. But see it as a proof of concept, and a chance to test conversion quality and speed.

on action (f) {
	// takes the path to a Word-file, converts it to html and replaces the content of test.htm with it.
	local {
		gick};
	with objectModel, Word98 {
		Word98.launch();
		try {
			open(file[f]);
			return(save (document[1], saveIn: "Player2:test.htm", as:"html"))}
		else {
			msg(tryError)};
		return(false)}};
msg(action ("Player2:testdok.doc"))

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