Help required on AbiWord

Hi,

First of all I would like to thank and appreciate the efforts that you guys
have put in developing such a wonderful application as AbiWord.

We are having a web application developed in MS .NET using C#, in which we
have to manipulate certain Word files.
Currently we are using MS Word 2000 automation for doing the task. But as MS
Word does not support server side automation to full extent, we are facing
some of the problems working with MS word. Basically the major problem is
with copy-paste (in search-replace) functionality in word, the problem can
be more explained as :
We try to search for some particular text in the document and try to replace
with some other values. The application works fine if we use the MS Word
object in a single threaded fashion (implementing singleton pattern), but
sometimes this operation takes lot of time and the other requests has to
wait till the current executing thread completes the operation and hence
creates a bottle-neck.
The main problem faced here is if we create a separate objects of word for
each request and try to find and replace the words in the document, since
each request is creating a separate instance of MS word, each time the
request thread is processed by .NET runtime the active document is swapped
and the program tries to search the text in some other document (started by
some other request thread).
Also as MS Word uses the OS level clipboard while copying (in Range.Copy()
method) each time a new thread copies something it overwrites whatever is
copied by other thread.

So I am interested in knowing from AbiWord team that -
1. If AbiWord can be used for server side automations.
2. Does it solves the problem of Copy-Paste problem that we are facing with
MS Word.
3. Can we select a range of text based on the position of the text.
4. Can we manipulate word table programmatically.
5. Can we insert images programmatically in a document.

Seeking your informative reply.

Thanks and Regards,
Sandeep

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Received on Wed Jan 4 15:51:39 2006