I am in the process of designing a solution for the following
requirement:
We need to allow users to create a "template" in word (not necessary a
word template, but a word document that will be used to create other
word documents via parsing). The template will be dynamically
populated with data from the active document in our application which
is running in another process. The solution must work on PC and Mac.
On Windows, the obvious route is to use COM to pull data from our app
into VBA and then push it into the template.
My question is this: is there any equivalent to that using VBA in Mac
Office v.x? Does Apple Script provide the same capability as COM does
on windows? I'm pretty new to Mac development, so pardon my
ignorance.
Other solutions we are considering are using RTF and writing our own
parser/template engine...not sure which would be easier.
Any feedback would be extrement appreciated.
Greg