[Zope] How can I prent Powerpoint with Zope?

John Whalley J.H.Whalley@mmu.ac.uk
Thu, 15 Aug 2002 13:10:50 +0100


Would this work with a single Windows Zope?

John Whalley

 "Tim Hicks" <tim@sitefusion.co.uk> 15/08/02 11:25:45 >>>

>> > I would like to present PowerPoint on a web site.
>> > The Server is a Linux box.
>> > I have heard that there are tools to do this.
>>
>> In case you find tools, that are efficient I would appreciate if you would
>> let me know - Thanks a lot!
>
>I have a product (that I'm still developing) that connects to Powerpoint as
>a COM object (i.e. on windows) and uses that to save each slide as a png.
>The product is actually a pair of products: the windows end does the actual
>converting and can be communicated with via xml-rpc, while the other end can
>be on any OS.  See http://www.bris.ac.uk/ISC/cms/zlave.gif for a clearer
>explanation.
>
>Not sure if it would suit your needs as it does require windows.



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