Hi Andrew, sorry for the late answer, I didn't have any time for mailing lists in the last two weeks.
I'm also sorry that I have bad news: I was too optimistic, my assumption was that we have a virtual device as a UNO service - but it seems we haven't. So this needs some more investigation. Regards, Mathias Andrew Richards wrote: > Thanks Mathias, > > I will take a look at this interface as you suggest and post a message on > [EMAIL PROTECTED] also. > > Im not quite sure what you mean by "output device"? like a print driver? I > was hoping to avoid using a print driver as i had heard it was rather slow? > > Or am i misunderstanding? > > Thanks again, > > Andy. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mathias Bauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 25 November 2008 17:30 > To: dev@udk.openoffice.org > Subject: Re: [udk-dev] import doc and export to tiff > > Hi Andrew, > > Andrew Richards wrote: > >> Thanks Mathias, >> >> I am doing this as part of a j2ee application so I guess I would need to > use >> the GraphicExporter as your suggest and iterate over the pages. I assume >> this would allow me to export each page including its text and graphics as >> an image? > > I have to dig out the code, but what I have in mind is getting the > XRrenderable interface from the loaded document, render each page to an > output device and then get the conten from the output device as an > image. I don't remember exactly, but possible you can get only a > (Windows) Bitmap that way, but this can be converted to a TIFF with > either external tools or with a conversion service of OOo. > >> Peter Eberlein kindly suggested embedding a doc-file into an empty draw >> document as an OLE-object and then exporting the draw document as a tiff > but >> I'm not sure if I can do this programmatically yet. > > I think that is posssible, but even if you make the OLE object as big as > possible, you are also limited to import each draw page individually. So > you have to hack your doc file into single pages and insert them one by > one on a new draw page - looks awkward to me. > >> Any ideas which approach would be best? > > If you want to try something, go for the "XRenderable" API, we use it > ourselves for the PDF export. I have no code here yet and I might need > some days to find something - but perhaps you can find it by trying. Or > you ask on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list that BTW better fits to your > topic anyway. > > Regards, > Mathias > -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
