David
Thank you. I tried your suggestion as you recommended per the attached.
It works fine. The only problem I will have to work around that I might
not have with some of the other suggestions is that I will be converting
MS Office Word tables to pictures and some if not most are too large, so
this means I will have to form my tables into smaller ones and combine
them when placing into a picture. The method appears to be very
promising but I have only done a test involving one cut and paste. One
nice thing is that the picture size is under my control and since the
pictures are destined to be part of HTML web pages I have a bit of
control over their appearance in the web page. Most of my web page
construction tools are on the MS win95 workstation but I have a few on a
Linux work station. By creating gifs I can work with the pictures on
both work stations.
Since I automate with perl much of the web page stuff I do this on the
Linux work station. It is extremely stable whereas the win95
workstation crashes over any little problem.
Anyway, I have a follow up question, which applies to both Linux and
databases. I currently work with MySQL and Postgres with PostgreSQL
being my favorite. The project I am working on involves language
dictionary creation and as high as 100,000 web pages many of which can
incorporate the dictionary definitions. The project will take several
years but will appear in bits and pieces on the hosted web site.
Anyway, I need to store these gifs (manufactured according to your
recommendation) in a data base.
DO YOU or ANYONE on this list have experience storing image files on a
database. I would like to create a record having multiple fields and
some of the fields would include these gif files. I think it can be
done as I recall reading either on this list or a perl list or a DBI
list or somewhere of this very thing being done. But I am not sure and
don't know if there are special considerations.
ANY HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED and thanks to all.
Bye - Ted
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David
I will give this a try - sounds good - I'm running Win95B and will let
you know how it works. I dislike MS Windooze (and NT) with a passion
but there are applications I must make use of for the web site I have in
the USA and these applications are not available on Linux. So I do
appreciate the responses so far from the Linux community. Also, I wish
to apologize for being slow getting back to everyone, I have limited
Internet time as I operate from a rural area in Alberta, Canada and from
this location do data transfers to my web site in the USA. So I have to
prioritize my Internet useage to ensure that I can keep the USA web site
properly updated. Thanks again everyone!
Ted
David Kramer wrote:
>
> On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Anthony E. Greene wrote:
>
> > "Ted Hilts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > This may sound dumb but there is a good reason for asking and so far I
> > > cannot find an answer. I need to convert MS word documents to
> > > pictures.
> > [snip]
> >
> > Covert the Word documents to PDF.
> >
> > You can either buy the tools from Adobe, or, if you have a Linux box
> > available on the same network, you can setup a workaround. Setup a printer
> > on the Windows box that uses the one of the HP Laserjet PS drivers.
> > Configure the print settings to "Print to File". This will create a
> > Postscript file that's easily convertable to PDF. When you print using this
> > printer, save the file onto the Linux box with an extension of ".ps". Then
> > login to the Linux box and run "ps2pdf" on the file. If you expect to do
> > this a lot, then drop the PS files into a specific directory on the Linux
> > box and setup a cron job and a shell script to automate the conversion.
>
> You don't need to do all of this! The easiest thing to do is bring up the
> document in Word, and hit Alt-PrintScreen to send the screen to the
> clibboard. Now you just paste it in your graphics program (if you don't
> have a better one than use "Imaging for Windows" which is on the
> Accessories menu of recent versions of Windows). Crop/resize however you
> like, or combine several screens-worth of capture into one image.
>
> Nothing to buy, and they don't need Adobe to read it. They can see it
> right on your webpage.
>
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