Could you use something like http://www.zope.org/Members/eric/MSWordDocument or http://www.zope.org/Members/sf/NuxDocument, grab a few lines of the HTML, and display those lines in a small box using a small font size? You could possibly adapt the MSWordDocument to export powerpoint if you are on windows via com. -Scott -----Original Message----- From: Brian Sullivan [mailto:brians@meetingbywire.com] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 2:37 PM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] Rendering Word .doc and PowerPoint .ppt as thumbnails Anybody have any idea how this can be done as a server function( either statically in conjunction with upload of the files or dynamically as server callable function) _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )