running word/office 2000 server-side

[s_m_b]

casting around a little, but does anyone have any experience of automating
word 2000 on a server from an asp page (i.e. via web)?

I'm trying to get a document to print to file as .ps, but have hit what
appears to be a roadblock with getting the document opened....

Before you come back with 'don't to that!', please note this is a means to
an end - creating a pdf file from an rtf file, and I've found nothing else
that can be driven from either scripting or command line.

NB: I've previous had success with creating a new doc from template and
saving that back, so I know the essentials work - create.object etc.

using w2k/nt4 btw

 

[Mark Bower [MSFT]]

See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q257757

When you are driving the process from a web server one of the main problems
you are likely to hit is re-entrancy. If you really do have to do this
server-side and can live with it being unsupported, then think of a way of
architecting your system so that you ensure only one document is ever being
processed at a time, and other documents to be converted are queued.

--
Mark Bower
Microsoft
http://blogs.msdn.com/bowerm

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