Getting images out

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Hi,I have a big problem and i don’t know how to solve it. I need to export and save images to hard drive from documents Rich Text Field. There are so many images that i can’t do it manually. Is there any way to do this with an agent? Or is there any other solution getting images out from Lotus Notes? For example can i save the image at same time when the document is created and the image is pasted to Rich Text Field?

I have deadline closing and i would need the solution to this really fast, so if you have any idea how to do this, i would be really thankful for it.

-Niina

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Subject: Getting images out

If I understand you, you should use the postsave of your form to get hold of the images from the document. You could get the names of the images using

attachments = Evaluate(|@attachmentnames|,doc)

and save them to the hard drive one by one.

HTH

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Subject: RE: Getting images out

if you are working on Lotus client .the try this

@Command([AttachmentDetachAll])

m not sure where this will work on Web or not

Regards

Sunit

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Subject: exporting XML and base64

Thank you both for the answers, I’m going to try them.

But now i have new question.

I’m already exporting documents to XML with DomParser(IBM - United States) and if I understood right, it’s decoding rich text fields to Base64 form. Is there a way to decode it back to image and how i can do this? I tried it with program called Base64 Decoder (Base64 Decoder). I copied text between and tags, and tried to save it as jpg, gif, bmp but it didn’t work.

if this decoding is working as I think, this could be the best solution for me because I’m programming a solution in c# that already uses the XML.

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Subject: RE: exporting XML and base64

Now you’re just being difficult!

If you take the Base64 decoding route, either you get that 3rd party product working, or try another one that is built for notes (like the Midas Rich Text LSX), or you use Java to convert the stream to an image. (Home – Apache Commons Codec is the library for this)

You also have this option, described by someone much smarter than me…

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nd6forum.nsf/55c38d716d632d9b8525689b005ba1c0/ae204de9816641a485257108004a3240?OpenDocument

Hope you get a solution!