[PHP] Re: PPTs and thumbnails

2003-10-30 Thread Al
Vijaya_manda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Is it possible to retrieve the first slide from a presentation and display
 it as a thumbnail on my site. Users will upload ppt's which should be
 displayed in form of thumbnails on my site. On clicking a particular
 thumbnail the presentation (.ppt or .pps) file should be displayed.

In short: not with PHP. You're going to need a program that can read and
render PHP files, and save them as a static image (i.e. gif, jpg, etc).
You can run this program (if you find one) using PHP, and then use PHP to
resize and manipulate the output image, but PHP cannot natively manipulate
PPT files, nor are there any PEAR packages for that purpose.

Good luck,

Al

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[PHP] Re: PPTs and thumbnails

2003-10-30 Thread Al
 In short: not with PHP. You're going to need a program that can read and
 render PHP files, and save them as a static image (i.e. gif, jpg, etc).
 Al

Apologies, the 2nd sentence should read You're going to need a program that
can read and render PPT files ...

Arrrgh, I hate tpyos! :)

Al

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