Insert Image Into Word Document

[Kastion2K]

I have a word document that's a template for printing labels. I'm trying to insert pre-generated labels (JPGS) into the Word document for printing but can't seem to get it right. When I do this:

     <cfimage action = "convert" destination = "c:\inetpub\wwwroot\admin\labels\thumbs\#filename#\labelcropped.jpg" source = "#lblImage#" overwrite="true">

     <cffile action="read" file="C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\admin\labels\template.doc" variable="docTemplate">

     <cfset docTemplate = ReplaceNoCase(docTemplate, "aa", lblImage, "ALL")>

     <cffile action="write" output="#docTemplate#" file = "c:\inetpub\wwwroot\admin\labels\thumbs\#filename#\#filename#.doc">

The word document ends up corrupt and can't be opened by Word. How can I insert images into a word document? I have "aa" placeholders that I want to replace with the images in question.

[Owainnorth]

Wow, that's some of the more optimistic code I've seen in a while.

A Word document is a binary file, you cannot simply insert text into the middle of a binary file and expect it to work, that's not how they work unfortunately. You might be able to read an RTF file in, but I don't think they support images.

Could you use a plain text file as the source and a PDF as the output? That'd be easy. Or even just use CFDocument to create a PDF with the images, then print that. Does it actually need to be Word?

[Kastion2K]

It could be PDF but the reasons I'm using word is:

1) Downloaded template from here http://www.worldlabel.com/Pages/wl-ol125.htm#templates

2) Word automatically resized my labels to fit in the slot in the template

If there's a way I can use the PDF template and resize my labels (and write/append the labels to X/Y positions) then I would consider attempting this with a PDF