Determining # of Lines in "outputted" HTML / MS Word

[Centinul]

Preface:

 

Currently I'm using PHP to modify an HTML document and once that is finished I pass a header to the user as a Microsoft Word document. Ultimately the user will be using MS Word to view / edit the document.

 

Requirement:

 

On every page > 1 I need to insert the subject line of the letter as the first line on the 2,3,4.... pages.

 

Problem:

 

I don't know how to determine the # of Lines Word would detect the document as. If I knew that I could determine how many pages the document is based on the formatting settings (46 lines per page at the moment). Unfortunately I cannot figure out a way to solve this problem.

 

In short I need to determine how many pages the resulting word document would be so I can insert text at the top of every page > 1.

 

Any thoughts?

 

Thanks.

[MadTechie]

so you need to work out the paper size, if word wrap is on and the font size and the line spacing etc etc

 

also i assume you are using M$ words ability to convert the HTML to a doc..

[Centinul]

Paper Size: 8.5x11

Left, Right, Bottom Margins: 1"

Top Margin: 1.4"

Font: Courier New, 12 point.

 

MS Word wraps the text.

 

To be clear, I take an HTML Template and pass it as a MS Word file in the header. The user then opens it up in Word. I need to figure out a way to determine how many pages and then a way of inserting text on the top line of every page after page one.

 

What next?

 

Thanks.

 

[Wildbug]

Are you running PHP on Windows?  If so, perhaps this package would be of use to you.  I've never used it myself, but it looks like you can create a Word document on-the-fly.  And if you can do that, you may be able to use MS Word's header/footer functionality to generate page numbers without trying to guess where they should go.