[ubuntu-za] Open Office to jpeg

[Bill Cairns]

Thanks all of you - all good suggestions!

I have tried unoconv but cannot get it to work. Perhaps I am not smart
enough to understand the cryptic documentation, but all I can get is
an error message that jpg files are not supported - while, of course,
the documentation elsewhere says they are. Now I begin to understand
why people complained about my program documentation many years ago!
(Why can't people provide a simple example in their documentation? It
would be worth 1000 words of waffle).

Using Presentations works fine (of course!) but it is not always easy
to convert a text document to a presentation (especially with
backgrounds). Good when starting from scratch.

I have often used screen shots, but it naturally does not work too
well if the page does not fit on the screen. There is also a loss of
detail. (But actually it would have solved my specific problem which
did not need much detail - I just did not think of it!)

The imagemagic solution works great - thanks for the suggestion!

Bill



On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Keegan Carruthers-Smith
<keegan.csmith at gmail.com> wrote:
> You can skip the gimp step if you have the imagemagick package
> installed. Then on the command line you can run::
>
>  convert input.pdf output.jpg
>
> This will output a series of .jpg files of the format output-num.jpg
> where num is the page number in the pdf (starting from 0). There is
> likely a way to convert an OO document to pdf on the command line, so
> you can chain the two commands for a quick solution.
>
> Keegan
>
> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Bill Cairns <cairnsww at gmail.com> wrote:
>> OK - it's not specific to Ubuntu but I want to do it on Ubuntu. And it
>> is Open Source. May I be forgiven.
>>
>> I want to take an Open Office writer document and convert it to a jpeg
>> image. There does not seem to be a quick and easy way.
>>
>> In fact the only way that I have figured out is to export the document
>> to a pdf file and then use Gimp to convert the pdf to jpeg. It seems a
>> long way round with an intermediate format.
>>
>> Can anyone suggest a more straightforward solution?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bill
>>
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