Upload into Word document with images

[gerard.buskermolen]

Hello world,

I have an ASP.NET application that returns HTML to the browser that
should be read by MS Word.
To do this I set Response.ContentType = ContentType.Word and render the
HTML.
The browser (IE6.0) shows a dialog box which enables the user to Open
the HTML in Word or save it to disk.

So far so good.

But now I want to include a number of images into the Word document.
These images are created on the fly during the generation of the HTML
(so they are not available in a file on the webserver).
I know that there is something like

<img src="data:image/gif;base64,iVBORw0KG....." >

to include the image itself in the HTML. This construction is
understood by Firefox, but not by IE or MS Word.

So I think I should upload the images as seperate files. A subdirectory
in de Temporary Internet Files should be created, the images should be
saved in this subdirectory and the HTML should refer to those images,
for example <img src="MyDir\MyImageFile.jgp">.

Does anyone know how to do this or have any other suggestion?

Thanks in advance,
Gerard

[Bruce Barker]

you need to defer image generation until the image fetch

<img src="generateImage.aspx?id=18282">

where id identifies the parameters need to generate the image.

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Hello world,

I have an ASP.NET application that returns HTML to the browser that
should be read by MS Word.
To do this I set Response.ContentType = ContentType.Word and render the
HTML.
The browser (IE6.0) shows a dialog box which enables the user to Open
the HTML in Word or save it to disk.

So far so good.

But now I want to include a number of images into the Word document.
These images are created on the fly during the generation of the HTML
(so they are not available in a file on the webserver).
I know that there is something like

<img src="data:image/gif;base64,iVBORw0KG....." >

to include the image itself in the HTML. This construction is
understood by Firefox, but not by IE or MS Word.

So I think I should upload the images as seperate files. A subdirectory
in de Temporary Internet Files should be created, the images should be
saved in this subdirectory and the HTML should refer to those images,
for example <img src="MyDir\MyImageFile.jgp">.

Does anyone know how to do this or have any other suggestion?

Thanks in advance,
Gerard

[gerard.buskermolen]

Bruce,

Thanks for reaction. I'm glad you were not mislead by the word
"Upload".
Of course it should have been "Download".

I'm afraid you're proposed solution has one disadvantage: if the user
saves the Word-document and wants to review it when offline,
he won't see the images anymore.

Do you think there is solution that doesn't have this disadvantage, or
am I looking for something that is just impossible?

Gerard