looking for library to read ppt files

[Aljosa Mohorovic]

i'm looking for a way to read ppt (powerpoint) files using python and
to convert slides into jpeg files.
any links or tips how to do this?

[Larry Bates]

Aljosa Mohorovic wrote:

i'm looking for a way to read ppt (powerpoint) files using python and
to convert slides into jpeg files.
any links or tips how to do this?

Not really a Python question but Google turned up:

http://www.sharewareconnection.com/p...-converter.htm
http://www.print-driver.com/howto/co...on_to_jpeg.htm
-Larry

[kyosohma]

On Apr 16, 1:42 pm, Larry Bates <[e-mail]:

Aljosa Mohorovic wrote:

i'm looking for a way to read ppt (powerpoint) files using python and
to convert slides into jpeg files.
any links or tips how to do this?

Not really a Python question but Google turned up:

http://www.sharewareconnection.com/p...crosoft_powerp...

-Larry

I suppose you could also use the win32 module and the COM object to
grab the info from the slide and then use the PIL module to create a
jpeg. Sounds like a lot of head banging to me, but it might be an
interesting project.

For info on accessing PowerPoint with Python, see links below:

http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread592690.html
http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread19132.html
http://www.p-nand-q.com/python/ms_office.html

Also see Hammond's "Python Programming on Win32" book or Chun's Core
Python Programming". Both have some examples of accessing MS Apps.

PIL can be found at: http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/

Mike

[Aljosa Mohorovic]

Not really a Python question but Google turned up:
it is a python question. i'm not looking for a program, i'm looking
for a library.
my goal is to convert ppt to jpegs but later i wish to convert to swf
and maybe implement animations

I suppose you could also use the win32 module and the COM object to
grab the info from the slide and then use the PIL module to create a
jpeg. Sounds like a lot of head banging to me, but it might be an
interesting project.

i can't use win32 because it should work on linux since it will be
used as server-side application.

[Carsten Haese]

On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 06:30 -0700, Aljosa Mohorovic wrote:

Not really a Python question but Google turned up:

it is a python question. i'm not looking for a program, i'm looking
for a library.
my goal is to convert ppt to jpegs but later i wish to convert to swf
and maybe implement animations

I suppose you could also use the win32 module and the COM object to
grab the info from the slide and then use the PIL module to create a
jpeg. Sounds like a lot of head banging to me, but it might be an
interesting project.

i can't use win32 because it should work on linux since it will be
used as server-side application.

How about running a headless OpenOffice instance and remote-controlling
it with pyuno:

http://udk.openoffice.org/python/python-bridge.html

-Carsten

[Aljosa Mohorovic]

On Apr 18, 4:02 pm, Carsten Haese <[e-mail]:

How about running a headless OpenOffice instance and remote-controlling
it with pyuno:

http://udk.openoffice.org/python/python-bridge.html

-Carsten

i'll try oo, thanks for link.