Comments on: Converting Openoffice Calc spreadsheet to image

By: smulcahy

smulcahy — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 12:03:31 +0000

Happy it helped.

-stephen

By: TC

TC — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 10:23:47 +0000

I tried using a screen capture software but it just couldn’t capture the whole table I wanted. The auto-scroll capture feature won’t work in OpenOffice.

You just solved my headache. Cool.

Thanks.

By: Jelou

Jelou — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 19:39:59 +0000

Yes, fanch. In Windows you can even put a form button in the sheet and assign a macro that select the cells you want and create an image on the background using IrfanView command line, so you can save as images a lot of tables in diferent sheets with just one click! I’m looking for something similar in linux but it seems to be imposible, because i can’t read or “paste” the clipboard data with any software. I’ve tried gimp, imagemagick… with no result 🙁
Of course, the method mentioned here works but it’s slow if you have to save a lot of images. Any alternative will be welcome.

By: fanch

fanch — Wed, 26 May 2010 16:36:43 +0000

Hi,
under linux with opencalc 3.2 and ubunti 10.4, it doesn’t seem to work 🙁
under XP i was used to paste it into irfanview with success!

By: stephen mulcahy

stephen mulcahy — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:21:30 +0000

Hey Mark,

Good to hear from you. The TIFF printer approach looks interesting. It might give you a bit more control over the layout of the output than the cut and paste approach (although I think its a pretty elegant solution).
Good to see some alternatives though (did you try the cut and paste on Windows?).

Thanks,

-stephen

By: Mark Dowling

Mark Dowling — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:00:54 +0000

Steve, in Windows there is the option to install a TIFF printer like Zan or if running Office2K7 the Document Image Writer printer. Alternatively you could follow the Ghostscript method outlined here but I haven’t tried it myself.

http://server3.nethost.co.il/set_tif.html