Linux does not support OLE as I am sure you are aware - though there is a project called Wine that promises to address this somewhat.
Anyway, have you taken a look at OpenOffice Impress? I have never used this application but it is - as I understand it - an alternative to Powerpoint. It may well be possible to open, and modify Powerpoint presentations using Impress and, if this is the case, then it will be possible to manipulate them programmatically using Java on a Linux platform. OpenOffice applications all support what are called Universal Network Objects - UNO for short. Oversimplifying, this is an interface that you can access through Java code and it is a gateway to the applications functionality in a way that is similar to OLE - you grab an 'instance' of the application and have it execute commands for you. It can be confusing however as the documentation is obtuse to say the least but the saving grace is oooforum.org - a website where you can get help, support and lots of code. steve.butcher wrote: > > Dear list, > > I have a requirement to embed a user editable chart in a PPT > presentation using only Java on Linux. A fall-back position would be > to embed an image of that chart in the PPT presentation. > > However, I found this discussion from 11/2007: > > I know this probably sounds old fashioned, but would it not be > possible to > use OLE - could you simply embed the Excel chart as an object into the > PPT > slide? > > Yegor Kozlov wrote: Hi, > > > 1. Create chart using Excel. > > 2. Export the chart to PPT slide as an image. > > To link steps 1 and 2 you need to convert the Excel chart into an > image. Unfortunately there is no way in POI to export/render Excel > charts into images. > > Regards, > Yegor > My question whether this is still true. Is there no way to directly > put a chart into PPT using POI? > Cheers, > Steve > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Embedding-charts-in-PPT-tp22817339p22849871.html Sent from the POI - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
