Server based word- dynamic merge and serve?

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Is there an inexpensive solution for merging personalized jpg images
into a word document template, on server, and serving them out to
website visitors? Can we "force" enough dpi so it prints well, as
would a PDF dowloaded....or will it print at screen resolution?
Thanks.
 
Hi Phil,
Is there an inexpensive solution for merging personalized jpg images
into a word document template, on server, and serving them out to
website visitors? Can we "force" enough dpi so it prints well, as
would a PDF dowloaded....or will it print at screen resolution?
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It's not really clear what you're trying to do (end result)? And with
which version of Word?

Generally, it's not a good idea to automate Word unattended, on a
server. From your description, you might consider using an
INCLUDEPICTURE field, without the \d switch so that the picture data
is saved in the document. Then just supply the person with a picture
in the given path.

Otherwise, if you and the recipients can use Word 2003, you might
consider doing this all over XML.

And lastly, you could try saving a Word (2002) template as HTML. Since
that's plain text, you should be able to change the PATH to a linked
graphic to bring in the preferred graphic when the file is opened.

I'm not sure about the graphics printing, but as I recall, Word
pretty much uses 96 dpi?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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Cindy,

Thanks, but I am getting the impression that we should do this with
pdf since most website visitors have acrobat reader, and it allows
control of graphics. There are various graphics all over page- not
just the mentioned photo, so html/text wouldnt be enought. We have
page borders etc. We want people to be able to print them at home on
their inkjet printers at perhaps 150dpi for good resolution. We would
have no control over which version of Word, if any, the user would
have, although they could download a word reader or use one of their
available text reading programs, but we are dealing with teens and
even some children, so likely not a good idea.

Also, there are some PDF software add-ons that are exactly for this
dynamic page generation, and not too expensive. So it looks like we
will go with PDFs.
 
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