From: Martin Sevior (msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Aug 09 2002 - 01:53:56 EDT
On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 14:44, Eric Thomas wrote:
> I'm having a bit of a problem with opening an abiword document from a web
> link. I've written a script to automatically create abiword documents from
> a template file with data supplied from a database. The script then writes
> an HTML page with a link to the document. On clicking the link, however,
> the browser just displays the source as an XML file.
>
> Any suggestions???
>
Interesting. You need a browser to display abiword documents ideally :-)
Since it might be hard to convince MS to do that with IE, the next best
thing might be to write a plugin for IE that displays it.
However I think what you really want is for the browser to automatically
open abiword. You might try gzipping the abiword file so the broiwser
does sniff it and open it as plain text. If the file is presented to
abiword it will be openned correct;y. It will also reduce the size the
the document by about a factor of 10.
Cheers
Martin
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