Re: 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.

Yes. See my blog post:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/msevior/

> 2. Does it solves the problem of Copy-Paste problem that we are facing
> with
> MS Word.

Yes.

> 3. Can we select a range of text based on the position of the text.

Yes.

> 4. Can we manipulate word table programmatically.

Hmm. I don't know what you mean here.

> 5. Can we insert images programmatically in a document.
>

Yes. But the code to do so has not been written. It's pretty easy to
extend though. The code is all in the plugin "AbiCommand".

> Seeking your informative reply.
>

The only thing is that the AbiCommand plugin only works on Unix machines.
Have you tried running your app with the mono implementation of .net?

http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page

Cheers

Martin

> Thanks and Regards,
> Sandeep
>
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Received on Tue Jan 10 23:06:39 2006