I'm looking to convert PPT and PPTX files to Flash (or flv) files in an automated fashion in Linux - So I need a command-line utility.
Are there any available options out there for me? (I haven't found any so far).
I was also looking for a Flash player to play ppt/pptx files as an alternative (similar to what slideshare provides) - does anyone know of any other than openslide?
Thanks for any help.
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Summary of answers: you should probably use OpenOffice to do it.
To do it from the command-line, it looks like you should probably use PyODConverter http://www.artofsolving.com/opensource/pyodconverter
OpenOffice generates a very poor SWF version. It should generate a back/foward button at least.
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I have a scanned pdf and I want to transform it to an editable text format. Do you have some recommendations to do this on Windows? I was thinking about using Linux as a subprogram of Windows. Any other ideas?
It looks like you work in Python, so a pypi package you might want to look into is pypdfocr. Essentially you'll want to use a tool like poppler to render the pdf and get the images from it (a scanned PDF is built on images), then read the text from the images via an OCR solution to get the text.
I have not used this package myself, so this is as much help as I can give. It should work with python in both Windows and Linux.
I am using an off site drafter for much of the drawing work that I have done. My office uses Autocad 2012 LT, while the off site drafter produces files in the 2016 format. In order to edit the drawings I must first convert the files from the newer autocad drawing format to an older format using DWG Trueview. Is there any way to interact with an API to complete this task?
The only programming language I know is python. I know comtypes can interact with the DLL's so its a matter of hooking in.
You can already convert drawings in batch using the DWG Convert tool provided with DWG TrueView, and so in my opinion there is very little benefit to be gained in investing a significant amount of time attempting to automate this process further.
Simply follow the detailed instructions & video tutorial provided here.
I have a HEX dump which I'm told is a PNG file and hence want to convert it into the PNG so I can view/manipulate appropriately.
I've searched all over the internet but can't find any good tools out there to do this. I was perhaps thinking a plugin for GIMP or otherwise?
I'd love your suggestions.
You could try ImageMagick.
Is not a GUI, but has a lot of features as format conversions.
Tell us which OS are you using.
If you believe it is just a Base64 encoding, try uploading it to http://www.motobit.com/util/base64-decoder-encoder.asp (first Google result for "base64 decoder upload"), choosing the options to decode, and export to a binary file.
Otherwise, if you could post a portion of the file in question, that would be of much assistance.
I have a wxPython GUI. I would like to display the pdf object as an image inside a wxPanel on Mac/UNIX. What would I use?
Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.
There is wxPDF:
http://wxcode.sourceforge.net/components/wxpdfdoc/
You can write your own wrapper for python if you are good enough with C++.
Or you can try:
http://www.wxpython.org/docs/api/wx.lib.pdfwin-module.html
But that needs acrobat installed on the users system.
edit:
You could also use pdf2ps to convert every page (called from commandline so you don't violate the GPL if you are not releasing under GPL) and convert that to a png file with ghostscript.
Not very elegant, but probably the best approach without using acrobat.
i want to burn my audio files into CD. Is it possible to do programatically.
I heard about ICDBurn. But not gettng that much idea when reading MSDN.
I am from embedded domain.
Can u give some help or sample program.
I want to implement in VC++ or qt.
Try to look at IMAPI (Image Mastering API) in MSDN.