Help! Looking for a .Net-kompatible component for converting between
HTML and RTF (both ways).
Asked this question a few days ago and received this link:
http://www.windowsforms.com/Samples/...186&tabindex=4
This was useful, but only converting in one direction. And XHTML is a
bit too strict.
Only commercial product I found was the ActiveUp ActiveRTF:
http://www.activeup.com/products/components/activertf/ but after
buying it I realized that its tag support is extremely limited, so
I am trying to find something else.
I noticed that copying between WordPad and FreeTextBox works very
well, so I started looking at using mshtml (sending
selectall/copy/paste)
commands, but performance is not that great and this method seems to
require that mshtml is hosted on a form (i.e. have a window).
I need an interface-less solution. I understand that this conversion
is built into the operating system? Perhaps using msconv97.dll and
html32.cnv? But I cannot find any wrappers for these components
or any documentation about how to access those conversion functions
directly from .Net?
Using Word automation or running command-line utilities that require
writing and reading input/output files would be too slow, as I need to
use this in an ASP.Net application which - on the server - has no
interface and requires perhaps a dozen conversions for each page
served.
Any ideas? I cannot believe that everybody (e.g. HTML Help authoring
tool vendors) are rolling their own html<->rtf converters?
All the open source examples I have come across have only been
one-way conversion utilities with very limited tag support. Too much
work converting any of them to .Net and expand them to fit my needs.
I basically need to support the formatting available in WordPad.
TIA,
Joergen Bech
