Anthony, Yes I saw a few sites that offer free conversion from .pub to .pdf and such. However, our app can't rely on a connection to a website, what we want is a real API to integrate with, and unfortunately none of these websites seem to offer such an API.
- Dmitry -----Original Message----- From: Anthony Andrews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 3:13 PM To: POI Users List Subject: Re: MS Publisher? OK Dmitry, sorry about that. Just had a quick dig around and found this link; http://www.pdfonline.com/ It seems from the site that they offer a free online service that will convert Publisher files to PDF format. Do not know if it works but it could be worth a try; after all Java is fully equipped to use networks. --- On Fri, 8/8/08, Dmitry Goldenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Dmitry Goldenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: MS Publisher? To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>, "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, August 8, 2008, 5:55 AM Anthony, Thanks for raising all these interesting points. Unfortunately, our application simply takes files as its input, so we have no control of any kind over the content and we can't tell our users to run any macros or converters prior to running our app. What we need is an API or converter executable we could invoke. Thanks. ----- Original Message ----- From: Anthony Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: POI Users List <[email protected]> Sent: Fri Aug 08 01:54:08 2008 Subject: Re: MS Publisher? I have never used Publisher so forgive me please if this is a stupid question but is it possible, when using Publisher, to save a file in a different format? If so, is it possible to use VBA for example to create a macro in Publisher as you can in Excel or Word? If the answer to both of these questions is yes, would it be possible to create a macro that opened a file for you and then saved it in a different format? If this is possible then it may also be possible to, for example, force the macro to loop through all of the files in a directory. Finally, have you searched for ActiveX controls? There are certainly controls that support the manipulation of PDF files and there may be ones that allow you to manipulate Publisher files. --- On Thu, 8/7/08, Dmitry Goldenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Dmitry Goldenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: MS Publisher? To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, August 7, 2008, 6:55 AM Hello, Does anyone know of an API to get at the metadata and content of MS Publisher files (.pub)? Or as an alternative, is there a way to programmatically convert them to PDF, Word, or HTML? I'm aware of things like PrimoPDF but they don't seem to offer an API or an exe I could use. Are any of the POI contributors currently working on .pub support? Thanks for any info. - Dmitry --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
