Putting Word Doc on the web

[BOAC]

I'm seeking a SIMPLE way to put a Word 2003 (or any) Doc on the web for viewing without having to open/save, I.E. so it just 'appears' from a link.

Saving it as .mht or 'web page' (htm) destroys the formatting, let alone filling the page with a zillion Cascading Style Sheets.

At the moment I have 'captured' a JPG and put that up, but it is a little fuzzy. Google does not offer a simple answer.

[Saab Dastard]

Pdf?



Sd

[BOAC]

Which begs the next question...............how? Not forgetting that 'readers' will need the Adobe plug-in - is that 'universal' or does it need to be installed? The pages are for 'the masses'. Will a PDF just 'open' on screen?

EDIT:1 OK - PDF995,

[EastCoaster]

Try this one....

MyPDFCreator freeware download - Easily Create, Protect and Combine your own PDF documents in 3 simple steps. - Best Freeware Download

Always works for me. Type up your document, save it, then print it; except make sure you change the printer in the Word Print dialogue to PDF Creator before hitting the print button. You will then be asked to name your file and for a location to which it will be saved, and hey presto - you'll have a .pdf version of the document that you will then be able to link to and will look just as you intended.

[BOAC]

Still a bit ignorant on PDF on the web. My understanding is that Mrs Smiff who wishes to view this PDF file on my site has to be told:
1) She needs Acrobat reader or similar to do so
2) It could be a 33mb download

There must be an easier way.....?

Will a Word Perfect or Open Office file display correctly?

The problem I have is that I am running a site for a local club and am being sent very eye-catching Word 'flyers' with wordart+clipart etc for events etc, which would be perfect for the site. At the moment the only way I can get a reasonable display is to jpg each block and put the image onto a web page. Very time consuming. As I said, a screen shot of the whole page has a 'fuzz' to it.

[Saab Dastard]

am being sent very eye-catching Word 'flyers' with wordart+clipart etc for events etc

Request that they publish them in html?

SD

[BOAC]

Yes - a nice idea but totally impractical! That seems to be my job.

After much fiddling in Word with 'view as web page' then save at htm after re-jigging ALL the formatting, I managed to get something just about acceptable, but it is struggle and it has put a couple of odd 'dashes' in for good measure! The page code is, as I said earlier, humungous cf a normal page. Still cannot get one of the pages to display properly in Firefox.

Ah well!

[green granite]

Just did some experimentation with open office, opened a word document (quite a complicated one ) in 'open writer' then told it to save as an HTML file and it worked fine ('save as' them select the file format you want), looked exactly the same as the original.

[BOAC]

Thanks - I'll give that a go. Did you check the page in a few browsers, as the eternal incompatability seems to be rearing its head again for me.........?

My task pages include both wordart and graphics and are produced on a MAC to add to the fun.

No, formatting gone to pot again! In OO I do not seem to be able to reposition the images either before saving a HTML. OO even distorts the Word Art which has shadow.

[Saab Dastard]

My understanding is that Mrs Smiff who wishes to view this PDF file on my site has to be told:
1) She needs Acrobat reader or similar to do so
2) It could be a 33mb download

Well surely the vast majority of people that have a browser have Acrobat Reader? There is so much material in PDF, most people have already got it.

If your PDF of a single Word page is 33MB, you are definitely doing something wrong!

SD

[BOAC]

Hmm - I suspect we move in different computer circles, SD. I don't fink Mrs Smiff looks at a lot of PDFs, and you misread

1) She needs Acrobat reader or similar to do so
2) It could be a 33mb download

- or maybe I misread the Adobe website file download size?

Web page is around 76kb PDF around 115.

[Shunter]

PDF is ok for document presentation on the web, the market penetration of Adobe Reader is pretty high. That said, if you don't want to deal with the ridiculous bloatware that its download entails, there's a smaller, lightweight pdf reader called FoxIt, which for 99% of people is perfectly fine.

Another interesting option is FlashPaper, allowing the export of documents to Flash. The number of people who don't have the Flash player plugin for their browser is miniscule, since it's practically essential for viewing large numbers of sites these days.

[The Flying Pram]

1) She needs Acrobat reader or similar to do so
2) It could be a 33mb download

There must be an easier way.....?

There is: "Foxit" PDF reader. The setup file is only 2.13Mb, and the programme itself opens much faster than Adobe....

[BOAC]

Looks promising, FP - how do I direct non-PDF browsers to download and install the module, please? Is there an equivalent for Macs?

Oh oh! just seen it is not really 'free'. Think I'll stick to the hard way.

[Shunter]

It is free, simply requiring payment to use the features which 99% of people don't want or need.

[The Flying Pram]

Foxit Reader is free, the Editor has an evaluation version which can be upgraded on payment. Most websites just post a link to Adobe whenever they include PDF files. I don't see why you couldn't link to Foxit instead. Just put words to the effect that "If you don't have a PDF reader installed on your computer download one here". If a Mod sees a problem with the legal aspect of this please edit as needed.
Unfortunately it doesn't look as if they do a version for Mac's.

[BOAC]

Unfortunately it doesn't look as if they do a version for Mac's.

- anyone know if a MAC can read PDF 'out of the box' or does it need a 'reader'?

Thanks for clarifying the 'free' bit, guys - not particularly clear from their site.