-> What is this ppsei?

ppsei (PPS Extract Images) is a simple command line program (written in C),
which TRY to extract images from Microsoft PowerPoint Documents (PPS/PPT).

-> Why this program?

Because i get a lot of mails with attached PPS/PPT in,
containing some nice images (about universe, about pretty
girls, etc). The sender people are using this
file format as an image-container, or image-encapsulator.
They could use tar/zip/..., but somehow PPS is the general.
On *nix systems only resource-consume application can handle this
file formats (openoffice, wine + win.exe), so i decided to write
this tool.

-> What kind of images?

Currently only JPEG,GIF and PNG files can be extracted. Because the PPS file
format
is not so well-documented as the gnumeric :-), there is no guarantee, that all
images will be grabbed correctly. But the experience is, that it works!

-> How can it be used?

As i said, this is a command line program: you can call it from SHELL
(or from favorite email software). It takes only the PPS file(s) as
argument, and will extract all detected images to the current directory:
$ ppsei universe.pps beauty-islands.ppt
...
$ gqview (start here some image viewer application, to see the result)

That is all

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[unknown]                  357     867  41.2% -lh5- b0cb Mar 29 11:32 ppse_1.4/Makefile
[unknown]                29370   75288  39.0% -lh5- 6797 Mar 29 11:32 ppse_1.4/ppsei
[unknown]                 3050    8628  35.4% -lh5- 4ef5 Mar 29 11:32 ppse_1.4/ppsei.c
[unknown]                  846    1538  55.0% -lh5- ba82 Mar 29 11:49 ppse_1.4/ppsei.readme
[unknown]                  735    1454  50.6% -lh5- 3fd8 Jul  3  2011 ppse_1.4/README
[unknown]                 1266    2749  46.1% -lh5- ff23 Jul  3  2011 ppse_1.4/README.dev
[unknown]              1387716 1667584  83.2% -lh5- d9b0 Mar 29 11:42 ppse_1.4/test.ppt
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