Re: [tlug] Visio-to-PNG Batch Conversion - Possible?

[Sigurd Urdahl <sigurdur@example.com>]

Andrew Errington wrote:
> On Sun, February 24, 2008 00:37, Lyle H Saxon wrote:
>   
> > I often have to convert Visio image files (usually line drawings,
> > sometimes photos with call-outs) into .png.  As it is, I have to open each
> > and every bloody file to convert it by saving it as .png.  Is there a way
> > to batch convert these?  
> >     
[...]
> How about a virtual printer that can "print" to a PNG file?  I thought I
> was crazy when I first considered it but there is a product:
>   
As long as this is "at work" and your time actually have a cost I think 
a commercial solution like the one above or 
http://www.universaldocumentconverter.com/ is the most cost-effective 
way of doing this.
> <http://www.componentsource.co.jp/enikk/products/gnostice-print2edoc-application/index.html>
>
> Maybe you can do the same thing and create a PNG printer on Linux and
> share it with Samba.  Then, in Windows, highlight all of the files you
> want to print, right click and select print.  
>   
It might be easiser to just configure a generic postscript printer in 
Windows to print to file, and then use "convert" from the ImageMagick 
package to do the conversion, e.g

   convert foo.ps foo.png

throw in a little scripting an you could have an automatic ps to png 
converter up an d running in minutes.

kind regards,
-sig


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