Word 2002 Print Preview format

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Is there any way to have a Word 2002 document (just pages of text, no
graphics or special formatting)appear in a FrontPage Web page the way the
document appears in Word when you are in View/Print Layout mode, with the
virtual pages, and their page numbers, headers, footers, etc.? AFAIK, the
only way to do this now is to create an Adobe PDF file, which then has to be
opened via hyperlink, the Adobe Reader, etc. I would LOVE to be able to
feature a Word 2002 document in a FrontPage 2002 page in Print Layout mode,
which IMO is the best and most natural way to read a multi-page Word
document online. If FrontPage cannot do this natively, and there is/are
third-party utilities to implement it as cleanly and elegantly as Word does,
I'd gladly pay for it/them. Thanks. Interesting question, no?

James
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PDF is the only format that will do that

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| Is there any way to have a Word 2002 document (just pages of text, no
| graphics or special formatting)appear in a FrontPage Web page the way the
| document appears in Word when you are in View/Print Layout mode, with the
| virtual pages, and their page numbers, headers, footers, etc.? AFAIK, the
| only way to do this now is to create an Adobe PDF file, which then has to be
| opened via hyperlink, the Adobe Reader, etc. I would LOVE to be able to
| feature a Word 2002 document in a FrontPage 2002 page in Print Layout mode,
| which IMO is the best and most natural way to read a multi-page Word
| document online. If FrontPage cannot do this natively, and there is/are
| third-party utilities to implement it as cleanly and elegantly as Word does,
| I'd gladly pay for it/them. Thanks. Interesting question, no?
|
| James
| (e-mail address removed)
| remove the "nospam" of course
|
|
 
However Acrobat allow you to maintain the format of the document, and unless
a user can get their hand on the Acrobat decode application, then PDFs are
fairly secure, however all HTML content is non-secure, so mentioning
security and doing what you want, is apples and oranges, as there is no
security in your approach.

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Thomas --

I must disagree. Any yahoo can download the Advanced PDF Password Recovery
utility from one of the 50,000,000 hackers' sites found on Google, point to
the "protected" PDF file, and let her rip. Done. Faster than a stray
wallet will disappear on a NYC subway car at rush hour, you can have your
PDF file stripped clean of protection, as if it ever existed in the first
place. Only in Adobe's feverish dreams.

OTOH, it takes a sentient being with some measure of intelligence and skill
to unencrypt a Java-protected (disables copy, print, view source code,
caching, etc.) web page. Yes, it can be done, but it's not being done as
often as you might believe, for that reason.

They dropped the ball on Acrobat 6, and I've given up on Adobe. If you are
content to rest on your laurels as Adobe is doing, there is always going to
be another more ambitious company who will come along and take your market
share. Remember WordPerfect, Lotus, Corel, and Novell. Abject lessons in
apathy towards the needs of their customer base. A company I'd expect you
to be familiar with cleaned their clocks, Thomas. LOL.

BTW, speaking of Microsoft, I'm disappointed to hear that they won't be
immediately competing with Adobe re their Document Image Writer. They
should. With their arrogant attitude, Adobe deserves to get smacked, and
hard.

James
 
BTW, here's a link to Google Groups documenting the "nothing's changed"
problem with Adobe's Acrobat 6 security encryption:

http://tinyurl.com/h5bh

Hell, if I could even get password locking as relatively light as you can
implement in a Word Document, I'd be very happy with Acrobat. As it is, I
think the chances of something better coming along in Acrobat soon are nil.

James
 
James, the original issue was about providing a Word document in a specific
format, as web page with no mention of security, the suggestion was made to
use a PDF which would maintain the format, how did this get to be a security
issue?

However a PDF offers security even if can be bypass, which from what I have
seen, very few PDFs are protected, so it is really only a concern to eBook
publishers, and you still have to pay (or someone has to) for the eBook
before you can use a application to break the security, where as a HTML
document is not protected, since it must download and then open in the
browser, at that point the document is already available to the user.

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Thomas:

Let's see if we can follow the neural pathways and figure out how this
ended up in a discussion of document security (and market dynamics):

1) my intent is to publish some copyrighted documents on the NET, and
Adobe doesn't cut it for me for the reasons I've already noted at length;
2) I want therefore to present the documents in some HTML format, but I
would prefer to have some measure of security, for what it's worth, rather
than simply dumping them into someone's browser cache completely
unprotected;
3) the generic HTML format is ugly and not reader-friendly. What I like
is the way the documents look in Word's Print Layout view;
4) my original question was how to do this, keeping in mind, though I
did not specifically mention it, my preference for a secure format;
5) when I found LeadTool's EPrint, that filled the need. End of issue,
until:
6) you posted a reply stating that "PDFs are fairly secure, however all
HTML content is non-secure, so mentioning security and doing what you want,
is apples and oranges, as there is no security in your approach," which
then broached the subject of security, since the original issue is already
resolved. This led to a discussion of Adobe Acrobat and how it is not
"fairly secure", it is completely non-secure. If I can instantaneously
decrypt any Adobe PDF is 1 second or less, by my definition, that is not
"fairly secure", it is pathetically inept of Adobe to even address the
subject of security in their products. Acrobat is a bad joke.

Regarding the common assertion that "no HTML document can be secure
since it must download into the user's browser cache", while it is true that
the document must download over the network to be viewed in the browser,
keep in mind, there's no requirement to download it in a plain, unencrypted
form! Using dynamic translation technology, it is currently possible to
keep the HTML code hidden from all but the most perceptive and educated
eyes, and I maintain that doing so provides a much greater measure of
security than that laughably dumb-as-a-stump Adobe algorithm. With Adobe,
the door might be locked, but the key is in the lock and all it takes is a
quarter turn to gain access to the entire house. Morons.

James
 
James:

Until you provide proof-positive, no one here is really going to believe
you, and if you or the developer of this technology are worried about
hackers, then it can be no better that Adobe Acrobat or any other method.

If the technology is so good then why wouldn't the developer want to shared
it or make it available, since it would make them rich overnight?

However, as long as you think you are protecting your document, that all
that matters, so good luck!

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Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
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FrontPage Resources, Forums, WebCircle,
MS KB Quick Links, etc.
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It is advertised, openly, given the right search engine terms, but the
webmasters who use it are not keen on disclosing the exact nature of their
site's security. To do so, especially for the sake of winning a meaningless
debate, would be a most extreme example of Pyrrhic victory. The truth is
out there. :-) I found it by my own persistent devices among dozens of
otherwise similar and useless products. Anyone, given enough time and
patience, can do the same. Sorry I can't just give it all away. Right now
it's in the hands of a foreign power. But ask Bill if you ever speak to
him. I'm sure he's hip to it. Somebody like him probably has dozens of
people feeding him tight, to-the-point abstracts of everything significant
that is happening in the industry worldwide on a daily basis. I'd say the
same about Steve, but I don't think he's nearly as bright a light, and
probably wouldn't "get it" as quickly as Billy Boy does. I get from Bill
that he absorbs the essence of information feeds in a holistic way the way
the body absorbs pure protein. That's my opinion, anyway. If I could talk
with Bill for 10 minutes I'd ask his take on the new T3 movie. He probably
knows how that could really happen. But enough, we are far off topic.
Thanks again.
 
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