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How to embed word process

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Talk about banging ones head agains a wall.  I guess ascii and ascii
is art is great.

I really want, really want word processing which is cross platform and
outputs beautifully on reports.

Yes, I know it is impossible.  But surely, if all 100,000 of us put
our heads together we could do it...

Lets see the problems:

a) Format
   i) RTF - cannot output naturally on the web.
   ii) HTML - cannot output with precision layout.
   iii) PDF - perfect output for reports and printing, editing not
possible.
   iv) XML - ODF can be converted to HTML, PDF, MS Word, RTF so seems
the best choice.

b) Tools
   i) RTL - nothing cross platform
   ii) HTML - cross platform if you run a browser, not useful for a
fat client and most of them use Javascript (ugh)
   iii) PDF - no tool to directly edit
   iv) XML - ODF in the form of MS Word, Open Office, KWord but
nothing that can be embedded in an app/applet
   v) Google docs - problem the only one with half decent paste from
MSWord

So I guess my main choice was to have a browser embedded in a frame,
running Google word processing with the ability to save it locally
(into my database, yum).

Still, even then it is clumsy.  I hope someone, one day will write an
amazing, open source, word processing Swing app which outputs ODF,
PDF, HTML and if it rocks I will make sure you get a slice of my pie...

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