How to convert rtf file output(already exist) into any image
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From: Arthur Tabachneck on 4 Feb 2010 20:44 SAS may well be able to do that, but I'm not aware of it having that functionality. Conversely, this OLD response, from 1991, suggests an alternative: http://www.listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0109c&L=sas-l&F=&S=&P=1303 HTH, Art -------- On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 09:30:20 -0800, Satya <kondal4uall(a)GMAIL.COM> wrote: >Hi Friends > >How to convert rtf file output(already exist) into any image file >using SAS > >Let know the solution
From: Mark D H Miller on 4 Feb 2010 22:18 Satya, An RTF file is NOT an image file; it is a TEXT file ( RTF <=> Rich Text Format) It may contain imbedded image a variety of image sources, with the image and all of its metadata stored between two markup tags starting " {\pict" and ending at the matching "}" Since it is a tagged format, you could write SAS code to scan the source file and parse out the image components, but converting to an image format other than the one imbedded into the rtf file is a problem probably best solved with some tool other than SAS. The image format is specified in the RTF coding. The picture itself may appear in the RTF file in a hexadecimal or a binary format. Current supported values of "pictype" are \emfblip | \pngblip | \jpegblip | \macpict | \pmmetafile | \wmetafile | \dibitmap <bitmapinfo> | \wbitmap <bitmapinfo> which correspond to emf ; png ; jpeg ; [mac] pict ; [os2 vs Win] metafile ; [dib vs WinDib bitmap] bmp Possible followup references Python discussion group message which gives somewhat more info than above http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2009-February/067266.html MS online description of the RTF specification (buried in the Office documentation) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa140283%28office.10%29.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa140283(office.10).aspx **<<== same as above but parentheses are not coded in url ; RTF Picture Extractor (VB program to extract images to WMF files -- ++SOURCE ) http://www.tripletee.com/freeutils.htm Delphi code to save/load images in RTF as PNG (in 2003 native Delphi did not support all guest RTF formats except PNG ++SOURCE) http://www.trichview.com/support/trichview.support.examples/example_howtosave_loadimagesinrtfaspng.htm Delphi/C++ libs now (2009) support all pre-defined formats allowed in rtf (product = tRichView) .... Mark Miller On 2/4/2010 8:44 PM, Arthur Tabachneck wrote: > SAS may well be able to do that, but I'm not aware of it having that > functionality. Conversely, this OLD response, from 1991, suggests an > alternative: > > http://www.listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0109c&L=sas-l&F=&S=&P=1303 > > HTH, > Art > -------- > On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 09:30:20 -0800, Satya<kondal4uall(a)GMAIL.COM> wrote: > > >> Hi Friends >> >> How to convert rtf file output(already exist) into any image file >> using SAS >> >> Let know the solution >> >
From: Ya Huang on 5 Feb 2010 11:47 Based on OP's previous post, I believe the intention is to convert a WORD table (which is much better looking than old text based table), into a bitmap format image file, so that it preserve the nice looking of the table, yet nobody can edit it. I know some pharm company do this kind of thing, so that every formal report can be traced back to the programming. I did some search, it seems that VBscripting might be possible to open up the rtf file, then 'Print Screen' and paste to some kind of graph program, such as MS Paint, the later then save it into an image file. I also believe OP won't accept pdf file, even though SAS can produce encrypted pdf file that nobody can copy/paste. The reason is that the 'image table' will be inserted into a word file, which might be a clinical study report, you can't really insert a pdf file into word. ODS/EPS might be close to what is desired. Not long ago, OP showed the code to use proc gprint to convert a text based table into a image, a very old method, but table looks not as nice as word table. On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 21:27:56 -0800, Savian <savian.net(a)GMAIL.COM> wrote: >On Feb 4, 10:30 am, Satya <kondal4u...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Friends >> >> How to convert rtf file output(already exist) into any image file >> using SAS >> >> Let know the solution > >You have been given good advice on what RTF is. In .NET you can >convert RTF to PDF if that is your desire but you do need to get out >of using SAS for this conversion. What do you want to do with it? A >little bit of information would help. > >Alan >http://www.savian.net
From: Savian on 5 Feb 2010 12:13 On Feb 5, 9:47 am, ya.hu...(a)AMYLIN.COM (Ya Huang) wrote: > Based on OP's previous post, I believe the intention is to convert > a WORD table (which is much better looking than old text based table), > into a bitmap format image file, so that it preserve the nice looking of > the table, yet nobody can edit it. I know some pharm company do this > kind of thing, so that every formal report can be traced back to the > programming. > > I did some search, it seems that VBscripting might be possible to > open up the rtf file, then 'Print Screen' and paste to some kind of > graph program, such as MS Paint, the later then save it into > an image file. > > I also believe OP won't accept pdf file, even though SAS can produce > encrypted pdf file that nobody can copy/paste. The reason is that the > 'image table' will be inserted into a word file, which might be a > clinical study report, you can't really insert a pdf file into word. > > ODS/EPS might be close to what is desired. > > Not long ago, OP showed the code to use proc gprint to > convert a text based table into a image, a very old method, but > table looks not as nice as word table. > > > > On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 21:27:56 -0800, Savian <savian....(a)GMAIL.COM> wrote: > >On Feb 4, 10:30 am, Satya <kondal4u...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Friends > > >> How to convert rtf file output(already exist) into any image file > >> using SAS > > >> Let know the solution > > >You have been given good advice on what RTF is. In .NET you can > >convert RTF to PDF if that is your desire but you do need to get out > >of using SAS for this conversion. What do you want to do with it? A > >little bit of information would help. > > >Alan > >http://www.savian.net- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - I would not use VBScript but use something more modern like C#/Java etc. I have C# code that handles RTF files and it is a minor thing to add in image support and that support would be for all major image files. I am happy to share the C# code as needed. Alan http://www.savian.net
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