[SalesForce] Access Document(pdf or doc) without Salesforce login

Update on Rich text images

Here is the problem unless stored as a document with externally available flag, I do not think you can permit the image to be displayed on a word document.

Read this doc on why static resource images cannot be accessed in a template:

https://help.salesforce.com/apex/HTViewSolution?urlname=Why-images-stored-as-static-resources-cannot-be-seen-in-emails-sent-using-VF-email-templates-1327108316482&language=en_US

The only crazy solution I can think of is

1) Ask the user to upload the image for the rich text field as attachment on the parent object.

2) create a long text field on the parent object ( kill the rich text field) where the user can add his / her comments related to the image.

2) Create a trigger on attachment object which saves the image into a document

3) Once the image is saved as Doc take the doc id that got created and update it on the parent object using a field that is not editable and do not add to the page layout. ( If you have to add multiple images to your template, you may have to do more nasty coding )

4) On your vf page do

Here is a solution that I developed using the advice from these blogs

http://eplatypus.blogspot.com/2012/01/visualforce-to-word.html

https://theviewfromouthere.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/turning-a-visualforce-page-into-a-word-document/

Instead of loading the image into a static resource I loaded it into the document and make sure Externally Available Image is checked.

My page tag:

<apex:page standardController="opportunity"  contentType="application/msword#mydoc.doc" applyHtmlTag="false" showHeader="false" cache="true" readOnly="true" >

I used the following syntax for rendering the image

<img src="https://c.**yourinstance**.content.force.com/servlet/servlet.ImageServer?id=docId&oid=OrgID" />

You can get the above URL by

My word file output :

This seems to be working in my org when using ImageServer instead of FileDownload. I also have the instance stuff stripped out from the start using a relative URL (may not be necessary).

As an example, I tested a URL field with this value:

/servlet/servlet.ImageServer?id=015F0000003oBk4&oid=00DF00000006hty

And a Formula field with this value:

IMAGE(Photo_URL__c, "Test", 300, 100)

This is working in my community in Salesforce1 as well as the standard desktop environments. Don't forget to include both image ID and org ID when using ImageServer!