Professional SharePoint® 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building Publishing Sites with Office SharePoint Server 2007

18.4. Out-of-the-Box Document Converters

As previously mentioned, Microsoft includes four document converters OOTB in the MOSS 2007 installation. These converters are intended to be used to create HTML pages. The following sections describe these four OOTB document converters.

18.4.1. Word Document and Word Document with Macros to Web Page

These two document converters take one of the new Word Open XML file format documents and convert it to an HTML page. The two file types supported, DOCX and DOCM, can be authored in Word 2007, Word 2003 (when the Open XML file format add-in is installed), Word 2008 (the Apple Mac version of Word), or they can be programmatically created.

When administrators configure these document converters, they must specify the default page layout as well as the fields that should contain the generated styles and body content; whether the file should be created upon the request (synchronously) or in the background (asynchronously); and the location where the page should be created.

When a user initiates one of these document converters, they specify the page layout to use for the new page and whether the page should be generated immediately or in the background.

18.4.2. InfoPath Form to Web Page

This document converter takes an InfoPath 2007 form and converts it to HTML. The InfoPath form must be created using InfoPath 2007, not a prior version. If an InfoPath 2003 form is wanted, it must first be upgraded to the InfoPath 2007 file format by opening and ...