| Christian K 2007-11-16, 1:30 pm |
| Ivar B. Jessen wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:40:51 -0400, in dbase.programming,
> Subject: Convert HTML to image file (TIF, BMP),
> Message-ID: <t68SxcnEIHA.328@news-server>,
> "Christian K" <ChristianK@<nospam>HeroData.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> If the HTML reports come from the dBase report generator, print
> report to pdf and use IfanView to convert to TIF or BMP.
>
> See IrfanView help -> Plugins -> postscript:
>
> "37. POSTSCRIPT: allows IrfanView to read PS/EPS/PDF files.
> Note: AFPL Ghostscript is required."
>
> I had the Plug-In but not Ghostscript and as it looked like too much
> work to try it out I hope you will report back if you have any
> success.
>
> It is possible to do it manually in the following way and it worked:
>
> From the IDE print a report to HTML
> Open the HTML in OpenOffice and save as pdf
> Open the pdf in AcrobatReader, Selet All, then Copy File To Clipboard
> Open IrfanView, click Edit, Paste to IfanView and Save As TIF
>
> The manual way only allowed one page to be saved although all pages
> in a report with several pages were selected. Maybe Copy File To
> Clipboard only copies what is visible on the current screen.
>
>
> Ivar B. Jessen
Ivar,
Thanks for the info, but I'm actually in need to do this
programatically, so user intervention won't do. But it's good to know.
I might just have to pony up and spend the few bucks for a DLL/COM
object to do it.
Cheers,
Christian
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