Daniel Garcia wrote:
Hi guys again,
The above script and some others that I have found through the OpenOffice
website are focused on extracting images. I do that through ODFDOM (
http://odftoolkit.org/) so that's not a problem for me.
I am now trying to export charts and single shapes as jpg images. I have
read somewhere that Drawing documents and single shapes are exportable and
in fact I did for Drawing pages but this give me a screen shot of the entire
page and what I would like to have is simply the single object as a jpg
image.
So far I get charts and shapes via using TheComponent.getEmbeddedObjects
and TheComponent.getDrawPage () respectively but it is here where my
problems start for both of them:
1.- Charts: I have tried to create a chart in a drawing page and then
export it as jpg file.That worked fine so I believe, from the Writer I can
just open a drawing page and hide (I read somewhere,
I gave you ALL the basic code in a recent reply to this topic :-)
no sure where exactly)
and then execute this macro and the problem is solved BUT I do just want the
single object
there is only one shape in a newly opened drawpage !
instead of the entire page as a 'screenshot'.
you have to dimension the drawpage the same as the shape dimensions !
2.- Shapes: I am bit lost because all that I am able to find out as
exporter ishttp://
api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/document/XExporter.html and
in there it looks like this is only available for documents themselves
rather than for single objects (charts or shapes).
Could anyone please give me a clue or hint to what part of the API or
whatever I am missing which would help me to finish this?
Thank you very much,
Daniel.
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Daniel Garcia <[email protected]>wrote:
At any rate I am absolutely delighted with both OpenOffice and
Odftoolkit.org.
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Daniel Garcia <[email protected]>wrote:
Hi Christian,
Thank you very much for those tips and explanations . The thing of
running openoffice without x-windows is definitely a great news and I
somehow knew that it had to be a way to address this issue.
The fact that I am asking here is because I asked in odftoolkit.org's
forum firstly and I was said:
"the image format of the replacement files is not standardized format,
where no other solution to transform these meta files exist as to use OOo at
the moment.
Nevertheless it would be nice to transform them in the future to JPEG. But
it is not in the close future that we will work on this."
The encouraged me to ask in here to find out another solution (
http://odftoolkit.org/projects/odftoolkit/forums/ODFDOM/topics/37-ODFtoolkit-question?
).
Right now I will use a macro to zip out charts and drawings but I will
absolutely be alert to odftoolkit can release.
Thank you everyone again.
Daniel.
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Christian Lippka - Sun Microsystems GmbH
- Hamburg <[email protected]> wrote:
Just two small remarks....
OpenOffice.org runs without x-windows, search for "headless" mode.
jpg/png do not scale well and until recently there just was no open
vector format so
OOo sticked with starview metafile which is an extension to the long
outdated windows
metafile. The replacement will be svg but this would still not solve your
problems as
Internet Explorer still does not support svg.
You should monitor the odftoolkit.org project, maybe a java based
starview metafile
renderer will pop up there in the not so distant future...
Regards,
Christian
Daniel Garcia wrote:
Hi ingrid,
The most difficult one yet :). I thought about that but the server is a
debian installation with no x-windows. This computer will be serving web
pages on live so I am scared of security wholes that a x-windows system
might cause.
Even so, the application would depend on so many third parties. What
happens if the x-windows crashes? The server is not at the same place as
the
clients.
Anyway, the more and more I am realizing that is not going to be
possible
to do that at the server side so I will likely need a macro able to be
run
in client's openoffice instance able to convert charts and drawing to
jpg/png or whatever format that is treatable.
What I do not understand is, Why OpenOffice do not supply those as
jpg/png
images since this process is already implemented because when you save
the
openoffice file as a html file, you can get those objects as png images.
Instead, you get a startview metafile for charts and nothing for
drawing...
weird. It might be because of opendocument standard's premises.
Thanks again,
Daniel.
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Ingrid Halama <[email protected]
wrote:
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