Hi all you lovely stack peeps... heres hoping you can help me with a small conundrum.
A web system I am developing needs to provide users with the ability to preview documents. I am looking into ways of generating Jpgs of the first few pages of documents but that may not be possible on our server ATM.
Facebook seam to have recently gone very microsoft, one of the functions they have added is the preview option to "docs". This seams to use the world web app tool by microsoft.
I have googled arround and the only way to use this seams to be to embed things from a skydrive account. This won't suit my website (and I think we would break to terms if we tried) so I was wondering if there was some kind of API available. I havn't found one but I was wondering if anyone else had?
Alternatively what is the best solution for previewing Microsoft documents on-line?.. is there a library or tool kit available anywhere for doing this kind of thing? Is there an open office version of the world web app?
Cheers!
Chris