Re: [Wvware-devel] wvWare question

From: Richard Poole (rp@guests.deus.net)
Date: Tue Jun 11 2002 - 07:23:11 EDT

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    > --- Dom Lachowicz <cinamod@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi
    > Joe,
    > >
    > > You could accomplish this using wvWare, but it would
    > > be a royal
    > > pain-in-the-ass to do so. What I would suggest is
    > > something like the
    > > following:
    > >
    > > 1) Go check out my other project, AbiWord
    > > (www.abisource.com) and subscribe
    > > to the developer list.
    > > 2) Check out the 'GR_Graphics' class and become
    > > famliliar with it
    > > 3) Become familiar with libpng/libjpeg/libtiff/...
    > > 4) Write a GR_Graphics class that uses one or more
    > > of the above libraries.
    > > It shouldn't be too hard.
    > > 5) Call 'print' to effectively print your document
    > > to a series of images

    Wouldn't it be even easier to use the existing mechanisms in AbiWord
    to print PostScript, then use ghostscript to convert to whatever
    raster format you wanted? No new code at all required.

    Richard

    > > >From: "Joseph Donth" <jdonth@donth.com>
    > > >
    > > >Hi,
    > > >
    > > >I am looking for a command line tool that will
    > > input a Word (.DOC) file and
    > > >output a series of graphic images (BMP, PNG, etc),
    > > one-per-page.



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