Re: [SLUG] Powerpoint image extraction

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Fri Jul 15 2005 - 12:32:38 EDT


On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Chuck Hast wrote:

> On 7/15/05, Eben King <eben1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> > So a correspondent sent me some images, encapsulated in a .PPT file.
> > (Naked JPEGs would have worked fine, but nooooo...) Is there any way, using
> > od, grep, dd, or maybe some tool I don't have yet, to get them out? I can
> > view it in Windows (I suppose Windows-in-VMware too) using MS*spit*'s free
> > "Powerpoint Viewer", but I can't do squat with it.
> >
> Did you try Open Office? I use it to open company PPT files all of the time,
> it should allow you to pull those images out.

Cool deal. It opened right up in OO 1.1.1. Is there a quick & dirty way to
save all images to separate files? (I would cull them later.) I've never
used OO or any presentation SW before.

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