Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 22:18:03 -0500
Reply-To: Mark D H Miller <mdhmiller@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Mark D H Miller <mdhmiller@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: How to convert rtf file output(already exist) into any image
file using SAS
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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@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
>
>> Hi Friends
>>
>> How to convert rtf file output(already exist) into any image file
>> using SAS
>>
>> Let know the solution
>>
>
