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I suspected as much. Microsoft seems to have started from the GUI and worked their way down to an API.
by sunchild 17y ago
I suspected as much. Microsoft seems to have started from the GUI and worked their way down to an API.
- jamesbritt 17y agoThe Word API is really quite handy, and scripting it using Ruby (for example) is easy and effective. On win32. Reading their binary format, though, is another matter.
- sunchild 17y agoYeah, but it: (a) requires paid licenses, and (b) runs on a troublesome OS. It's also an absurd waste of time and resources just to convert a text format. I'd just as soon run it through Google Docs and scrape the result, etc.