Basically we want to be able to open up a docx file in as3 or Flex 4 and convert it to a text flow while preserving formatting, embedded images, tables, columns, etc. I know theorectically it's possible as the new Text Layout Framework is powerful enough to pull it off, but I haven't been able to find any case where someone has achieved anything along these lines except for Adobe's BuzzWord web app which does just this. Ideally the solution would be for RTF documents as conversions to RTF from anything are pretty familiar.
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Buzzword was built before the Text Layout Framework existed; so I do not think it uses it. I was also under the impression--with no facts to back it up--that Buzzword did a server side conversion of the document; not a client side conversion.
I don't know of any AS3 projects that do this and would recommend taking a look at server side ways to access the data inside the word document. The Apache POI project is one option: http://poi.apache.org/ .
From there you'd have to create your own conversion from doc to something AS3 can handle.
www.Flextras.com
2010-06-20 19:26:19
Yeah, that's confirming what my own searching has resulted in. I'm using c# as the back end so I'm going to try to look into a openxml document to html. Then i should be able to do a minimal ammount of adjusting before feeding the html into a AS3 textflow.
JTtheGeek
2010-06-21 19:42:52