On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 09:57:38AM +0200, Juergen Schmidt - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg wrote: > Hi Dale, > > this kind of questions are best asked on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] > mailing list (subscription necessary). You can implement a small program > (Java, C++ or Python) doing that. For Java and C++ are examples in the > OO.org SDK. And for these languages an easy UNO bootstrap mechanism is > available. But of course you always need an installed office on the > machine. Python should work as well but i am not really familiar with > Python. > > For Java i would suggest our OpenOffice.org API plugin for NetBeans that > helps to do it easily (UNO client program wizard). The plugin is > available over the normal update center of NetBeans (5.5 or 5.5.1, NB 6 > is coming soon) > > Hope that helps > > Juergen
Well, my level of knowledge on open office API is about as near zero as it is possible to get and I have hitherto been a C, ObjC and Perl programmer mainly, although I am reading the Python manual right now. I'm sort of hoping I can just get a bit of example code that I can make a simple change to in order to get the results I want. Should not be anything very special required as all I need is to load a ppt file and then export it as pdf and exit. > Dale Amon wrote: > >Juergen: > > > >I've got what should be a simple problem to solve but > >I am not sure whether I have to scale a learning cliff > >to accomplish it. > > > >I have been asked to set up a means by which I can on > >the command line convert a ppt to pdf. I can do this via > >the openoffice GUI easily enough by opening the ppt and > >using the EXPORT-PDF menu option. > > > >I should think this would be an easy thing to do on the > >command line but documentation is rather sparse and > >non-specific. > > > >Is there a simple way to do this? > > > > someprogram input.ppt > output.pdf > > pdfimage -j output.pdf outputpages > > > >is all I really want (yes I need both pdf and jpegs at > >the end of the process)... > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
