I've searched online in multiple places, but I can't seem to find a proper solution. I have two RTF documents that I want to merge together as follows. I have a document and a cover letter, so I want the document followed by copies of it with a cover letter before each copy, as follows:
Document
Cover Letter
Document
Cover Letter
Document
With RTF files they have markup at the beginning and end, so I can write a regex to remove the markup, which technically works fine, but the formatting can be changed in the cover letter. Also, the other problem is that the document can change - there is a list of about 10 or 15 documents that I can choose from, each of which has a different markup at the beginning of the document, so the solution that I found at Concatenate RTF files in PHP (REGEX) can't help in all situations.
Sadly, since I am on PHP 5.3 I can't use the solution mentioned at Merge multiple doc or rtf files into a single doc or rtf file by using php script because it relies on PHP 5.4 or PHP 7
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To document my code I thought it would be best practice to use phpDoc syntax, because there are several parsers out there and some IDEs create IntelliSense out of it.
Now I need to put the documentation (API) into a word file, but I don't know which parser is able to output .doc or similar.
I tried DoxyGen, which outputs .rtf and phpDocumentor2, which can only export to .html and .xml (?).
Is there a way to generate a .doc(x) file from phpDoc? Or a simple way to get a document which can be imported to word?
I would appreciate if I don't have to change the phpDoc syntax, because my documentation is very long.
Edit: The prefered parser would be phpDocumentor2, because it supports PHP 5.3 functionalities and it's faster than DoxyGen, but phpDocumentor2 has less features than phpDocumentor, which is no longer maintained, related to output formats.
Edit: I tried to copy content from the .rtf file into the .docx file, but when I select 'Use Destination Styles', both Word instances suspend and do not respond.
Presumably you want one large Word doc that contains all the info for your project in the one doc/file... therefore just opening the phpDoc2 HTML output into Word in order to convert it to docx will not meet your need, since that would be one docx per phpdoc2 HTML page.
You might try altering your searches to be for a tool that can spider a given HTML page, recursively pick up all its target page hierarchy, and convert it all into a single docx. You might have more luck finding a tool that does this but produces a PDF... then you could just use Word to convert the PDF into docx.
I am trying to read a .doc file and find tokens like {name}, {phone}, {address} etc. now display tokens with text box and allow user to replace by inserting original data. so that .doc file will replace with actual data.how to do this using php? the color, fonts, and style of .doc should not be changed.
thanks....
This will be very tricky if you are using the old style Word documents. The new Word documents are saved in a some sort of Zip archive and therefore are much easier to edit.
You can extract this files and with some knowledge of the contents and Word WSDL you can edit the contents of the file.
Much easier is to make use of the PHPDocX Library. We are using it in a project and works like a charm. Only disadvantage is that it only works with .docx files.
Are there existing libraries for generating .ttf via image(s) using PHP (say, a series of images)? There are several references about creating gdf from images, but I've not yet found examples of ttf-font creation via PHP.
N.B. There are also several online resources that let you upload an image (write a letter in each box on an image template) to be instantly converted to a TTF. http://www.yourfonts.com is one of them
To my knowledge, there is no such tool.
Creating a TrueType font is a hugely difficult enterprise. A font consists of a lot of very complex information (see the "technical notes" in the Wikipedia article to get a tiny impression). It won't do to just paste a series of images together.
Depending on what you want to do, I suppose you could work around this by building a faux "bitmap font", one image file containing one character, and glue the correct images together to form a sentence. The results will probably be less than perfect, though, because there will be no Kerning.
I am trying to parse a word document file. I upload the using PHP then I am trying to get contents using file_get_contents(); function but the problem is when its displayed in front end a lots of garbage code in there like
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So my question is how can I clean up this text?
Maybe give this a shot? http://www.phpclasses.org/package/3553-PHP-Edit-Microsoft-Word-documents-using-COM-objects.html
Word documents (like docx and doc) are not straight text files - they are actually proprietary file types that do not just have the text from byte 0 - this is how they have fancy formatting and fonts. .docx files are actually archives (.zip files) that contain a myriad of XML and styles.
Your best bet is to use a text input form, or find code online that allows you to extract just the text. Or, download the doc files to your own computer and use your own copy of MS word to open it.
I am doing a project on online medical transcription training. For that we are not allowed the original documents to the users.
User must type all the contents he hear and he uploads the documents to the server. Then the Original document will be compared or merged to his edited document and the result file will be downloaded to him to verify.
I need to do this in php? is it possible?
I heard about COM object in php. but i dint find any good example.
By searching "word com php", you should find a lot of sample code via Google.
However, there are other solutions (e.g. convert .doc to html or text) which should be faster and less platform dependent.
Keep in mind that what word shows as content of a doc is not allways its complete content, but a result of more or less editing. Two docs may show amd print the very same text, but may contain just this plain text as well as large portions of deleted/edited/changed text and as such be much much bigger. So your only choice is IMHO to use calls to word to compare two or more different documents.
I referred in link
http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.text.text-diff.intro.php
It has the feature what i specified. It compare two documents and also has merge document.