> On Tuesday 19 June 2007 00:55:21 Yegor Kozlov wrote: >> HSLF can't convert ppt slides into images and I don't think we will >> ever support it. Even if we will, the ppt2png renderer will be pretty >> limited. Only simple shapes such as text, images, lines and rectangles >> can be rendered well. Also, in Java we can render only JPEG and PNG. >> Other picture formats such as PICT, WMF, BMP, etc. may require third-party >> libraries.
> Well, to be more precise the renderer would render to Java2D, and what the > caller happens to pass in as a Graphics2D object is the caller's choice. The > renderer wouldn't even have to have any explicit code for JPEG nor PNG. The target is Java2D. I'm absolutely agree. A potential problem is how to convert pictures contained in a ppt into java.awt objects. Java2D can read only JPEG and PNG, that is we parse a ppt file, read a JPEG and pass it to the target Java2D object. But how to convert WMF or PICT into java.awt.Image? Yegor --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
