[imp] Opening Word Docs using Horde

[Dale Britt]

Hi

Does The wv library come with Horde?

I guess either way, we should install this so people can read their docs
without saving

Many thanks for those who helped

Dale




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin M. Myer" <kevin_myer at iu13.org>
To: <imp at lists.horde.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: [imp] Opening Word Docs using Horde


> Quoting Dale Britt <dbritt at columbusinternational.com>:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > We are unable to open Word Docs using Horde
> >
> > This error message comes up
> >
> > The program used to view this data type (/usr/bin/wvHtml) was not
> > found on the system.
> >
> > How do we fix this?
> >
> > If I save a word doc first, it works fine
> >
>
> wvHtml is a viewer for Word Documents, which if it is to be used,
> should be on the same server that your Horde install is (although I
> guess if you were really hard up, you could install it on you local
> machine and use it in place of NotePad :)  Its intended for use of
> viewing Word documents where you might not have Word installed
> (generally server side - Word doc gets converted to HTML).  When you
> save the document, you're no longer dealing with Horde, but whatever
> your local operating system has installed that handles Word documents.
>
> Using wvHtml and saving a Word document are two different things - the
> two icons invoke different mechanisms for viewing the document.
>
> Kevin
>
>
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> Kevin M. Myer
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> Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13  http://www.iu13.org
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