Fwd: Generate MS Word files in Rails

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On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 7:32 PM, Scott R.
[email protected]
wrote:

  1. You might want to use RTF templates instead. It’s a format you can more
    easily search for your markers and modify, and Word will open it directly.

​Thanks for your answer Scott.

Does RTF pose any formatting challenges as compared to docx? Except
bold,
italics, bulleting my requirement doesn’t need any advanced formatting.

I just need users to be able to download the file, open it in MS Word
and
print.

Thanks,
Ganesh

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On 26 March 2015 at 08:11, Ganesh Ranganathan
[email protected] wrote:

Does RTF pose any formatting challenges as compared to docx? Except bold,
italics, bulleting my requirement doesn’t need any advanced formatting.

I just need users to be able to download the file, open it in MS Word and
print.

If you just want to download, open and print then I recommend using
pdf. Several possibilities are available for this:

Colin

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On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Colin L. [email protected] wrote:

If you just want to download, open and print then I recommend using
pdf. Several possibilities are available for this:

​I looked at PDF too but the users might want to make minor changes to
the
layout. The site is for generating legal agreements so minor editing and
formatting changes might be required ​before taking print

Thanks,
Ganesh

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On 26 March 2015 at 08:58, Ganesh Ranganathan
[email protected] wrote:

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Colin L. [email protected] wrote:

If you just want to download, open and print then I recommend using
pdf. Several possibilities are available for this:

I looked at PDF too but the users might want to make minor changes to the
layout. The site is for generating legal agreements so minor editing and
formatting changes might be required before taking print

OK.
It does of course mean that the printed document may not be the same
as the one you generated, that is presumably not an issue in your
case.

Colin

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Hi Ganesh,

I would also recommend you to take a look at RTF, but if like me the
.docx
was a requirement I would suggest you to take a look at the gem
GitHub - nickfrandsen/htmltoword: Ruby html to word gem.

It’s still in its early stages and doesn’t support bulleted lists, but
it’s
pretty simple to use and have nice features like template definition and
page breaks.

Best regards,
Marco