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I’m currently creating a Word document by generating HTML and changing the header information to display as a .doc file. It’s a poor man’s method, but it works just fine (until now).
I was just asked to include an image in the file. My best idea was to base64 embed the image. This works fine in a browser, however Word just gives me a box with an X in it.
Suggestions on how I can embed an image into this file and have it display in Microsoft Word?
That’s a tough one, Word isn’t able to handle
data:base64 encoded images in HTML, at least that’s the outcome in this question and this MSDN discussion.You have three options:
Create a folder in the location of the document, store it alongside the document, and reference images relatively (
<img src='imageFolder/image1.jpg'>)Work with absolute URLs or file paths (even more sucky)
Look into the new Word > 2003 XML based file format(s), it is definitely possible there.
The only other option I can think of is actually creating a native Word file, e.g. using OpenOffice.