Convert rtf File to jpg File

[Steve Dyke]

Is there any way, using Java, to convert a rtf file to a jpg file on the fly?

My web app shares a set of files with a Windows app. The windows app displays the rtf in an ole box on a report when viewed.

I am using JasperReports to generate a PDF file for report viewing and printing. I cannot find a way to attach the rtf to the JasperReport. I know it can handle images so i thought that if I could convert rtf to jpg on the fly it might solve my issue. Right now at least on the view part I append a HyperLink to the rtf but this is not the users expectations.

[Steve Dyke]

I sure could use some direction for this issue.

[Jeremy Botha]

RTF is a text format, isn't it?

About the only thing I can imagine you could do is use the java printing API to print to a PDF, and then convert the PDF to an image somehow.

But it seems like an incredibly round-about way to go about it.

Can you not access the data from which the RTF was generated?

J

[Ulf Dittmer]

The best I can think of is to display the RTF in a Swing component (the class is called RTFEditorKit), and then to take a screenshot using the Robot class. I'm not sure that that would work on a server, or that the screenshot would include the parts not visible in the Swing window, but it might be worth a try.