Todd, We now use Aspose (after having looked into as many alternatives as we could.) It is a pretty good piece of work and the support is pretty good too.
George On 6/28/07, Todd Mathews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestion. We looked at HSLF initially but it is still a > work in progress and doesn't have everything we need. Looks like we'll be > doing some digging into Aspose. > > It's amazing how difficult PPT is to work with despite being so popular. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Heald, Timothy (NIH/CIT) [C] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 8:39 AM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: RE: Create PowerPoint Files > > > > POI, one of the Apache projects contains Java objects to > > allow you to create all different kinds of M$ format > > documents. The specific part of it for PowerPoint is HSLF. > > > > http://poi.apache.org/hslf/index.html > > > > -- > > Timothy J. Heald | NIH-Contractor | iGate Enterprise Business > > Intelligence Branch (EBIB) Division of Enterprise and Custom > > Applications, CIT/NIH/DHHS > > Office: 301.594.5611 | Fax: 301.443.7010 | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Todd Mathews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 7:43 PM > > > To: CF-Talk > > > Subject: Create PowerPoint Files > > > > > > We need to be able to create PPT file output from CF. Has > > anyone else > > > done this that can share any info? We're looking at the Aspose > > > components and would love to hear from anyone else who has > > used them > > > or might have some CF centric sample code. > > > > > > It is amazing how difficult it is to write PPT files. We'd be in > > > heaven if we could simply change the output type of a .cfr file to > > > crank out the PPT docs since we already use it for the PDF version. > > > Unfortunately it isn't that simple so it looks like we'll be using > > > Aspose to do the job and code the output 'old school' to > > generate the > > > PPT report. > > > > > > If anyone has any better suggestions or experience with > > Aspose, please > > > share! ;) > > > > > > > > > Todd > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion 8 beta â Build next generation applications today. Free beta download on Labs http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs_adobecf8_beta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:282580 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
