ive seen this be done with openoffice in command line mode, i dont know the exact syntax but it should be easy to find out.
at that point all your perl script would need to do is loop the the file list and do a system() call to the openoffice program that does the conversion. this is hows its done at bigbluebutton.org ( except they dont use perl ) On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 2:57 PM, <andrewmchor...@cox.net> wrote: > Hello > > I am not an expert in perl and so before I propose that a particular script > be written I would likek to get an idea as to how hard the task would be. > > We have a large number (in my opinion) of excel spreadsheets that need to > be concerted to jpeg format. The jpeg files are used when a document is > created and the jpeg files are inserted. The spreadsheets are under > configuration control and the current policy is that when a spreadsheet is > updated the jpeg file is created (via a macro) and it too goes under CM > control. I am considering proposing that a perl script could go through the > directory structure and save each spreadsheet to a jpeg file and it would be > more efficient and cost effective. > > Question: > > 1. How hard is it to write a perl script that will open a spreadsheet and > save it to a jpeg file? > 2,. Does this capability exist now? > > Thanks, > Andrew > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > >
