print with word viewer not word? 1

[bn2hunt]

I have been looking for information on printing a word document from a script without having word installed on a computer. Is it possible to print the document using word viewer or can I install the "Word.Application" on a pc without word installed on the computer?


bn2hunt

"Born to hunt forced to work

 

[xwb]

If it is Word6 with next to no pictures and no tables or section numbers, wordpad can handle it.

 

[tsuji]

To print word document without word installation, you would find switching and familiaring openoffice rewarding in the long run.

As of the simplest commandline approach, using -p will do the basic.
[tt]soffice.exe -p <document.doc>[/tt]

But the more interesting and rewarding is that you can familiarizing with openoffice.org's automation interface doing automation. It is still a quite obscur area. For those familiar with python, there seems to be another plus. The automation is accessible from vbs. Here is what I figure for this minimal thing.
[tt]
[green]docfile="d:\xyz\abc.doc" 'your msword doc file[/green]

set osm=createobject("com.sun.star.ServiceManager")
set odesk=osm.createInstance("com.sun.star.frame.Desktop")
set odoc=odesk.loadComponentFromURL("file:///" & replace(docfile,"\","/"), "_blank", 0, array())

odoc.print array() 'main functional line of print
'give enough sleep here seems necessary
wscript.sleep 500
odoc.close true

set odoc=nothing
set odesk=nothing
set osm=nothing
[/tt]
Certainly for those without the commercial msoffice, one would anticipate a lot and hope for their success of those guys supporting the free OOo.

 

[bn2hunt]

xwb, unfortunaltly the label has at least 2 tables on it so wordpad is not an option.

Tsuji, I will look into the open office option. I know we have been tsesting this product for use in our company so I should be able to get a copy fairly easy. The only thing I need to do that you didn't include in your example is send it to a specific printer. Is there and Documentation that comes with open office that pertains to the scripting components or will I need to search online for it.

Thanks for the posts



bn2hunt

"Born to hunt forced to work

 

[tsuji]

The basic is surely from the origin of the tech OOo, the package, documentation and skd download. And then for developers, their api development site.

http://api.openoffice.org/

It is then tough to get started if one comes from ms/activex-affiliate. I find kalitech help the transition.

http://www.kalitech.fr/clients/doc/VB_APIOOo_en.html

The there are OOo running forums where some excellent persons posting long articles on specific topics, for instance this.

http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewt...&start=0&sid=46b8032f8a2bac107d143ade000a4ee6