Converting .doc to .tiff through LotusScript

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I have a button that takes a Notes document and creates a Word doc and saves it to the users local drive.

I would like to then convert that .doc to a .tiff and save it to the local drive again

I have a few ideas, but they don’t seem to be getting me anywhere

use VB objects to ‘print’ to the Microsoft Document Image Write as a .tiff

Call a DLL from script that does this conversion

Find a 3rd party tool that does this conversion.

I don’t want any interaction in the UI. All behind the scenes.

Any ideas?

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Subject: Converting .doc to .tiff through LotusScript

Hey

Is there a chance that I could get that “button” that takes a Notes document and a creates a Word doc. I’m in the situation that I need to pull heaps of Notes documents out of a Notes database and still maintain the original formatting of the Notes document? Sadly the “export to .rtf” function embedded in Notes does not keep the formatting so I’m in dire need of a tool/script that can help me convert the Notes documents to editable Word docs.

Cheers

Jakob

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Subject: RE: Converting .doc to .tiff through LotusScript

It is a commercial product, but our Midas Rich Text LSX does a good job of this, and is used by a number of companies to convert to MS Word (or a number of other formats). There are other products, such as Integra, that also handle this, although I have no idea about the comparative pricing or features of various products.

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Subject: Converting .doc to .tiff through LotusScript

The doc file is created by using Office Word 2003, and actually, the market leading TIFF converter or Word file converting tool support converting and rendering multi-page TIFF document into docx file, which means Word in 2007, or in the vice versa, Word docx file to TIFF document.

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Subject: Converting .doc to .tiff through LotusScript

I have used a product call tiffmaker and it integrates easily with notes via the lotuscript shell command. They have a comand line tool that allows you to do this behind the scenes passing in parameters.

I have not done it wtih word docs but with text files and implemented a high volume corporate solution tha works well.

http://www.informatik.com/tifmaker.html

(I am just a notes developer and I don’t even work for them but I would recommend this tool for what you are trying to accomplish)

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Subject: RE: Converting .doc to .tiff through LotusScript

Thanks for your response Tom. This might work for me. Although I do wonder how it would handle .doc files. Perhaps I could convert to .txt first.

Could you providing a snippet of code you use to invoke the command line?

Thanks, Becky

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Subject: RE: Converting .doc to .tiff through LotusScript

Sorry, acutally I worked on that project a few years ago (I am a consultant and hop around alot) and don’t have access to the code anymore. Its a good sign that the company is still in business and the software is pretty inexpensive.

I know there are a few ways you can do it via the shell command. Either code it all in a .bat/.cmd (batch file) and call the batch file via script or call the executable and pass the parameters via script.

This should give you a good idea how the application works:

http://www.informatik.com/manuals/manual_tiffdll50exe.pdf