Title: Save clipboard as JPG
Question: I needed a way to copy each graphic in a Word document into a JPG file. Here's a quick and easy solution using a tiny Delphi program.
Answer:
Word doesn't do this natively (without jumping through some silly hoops) and API's were a lot trickier than I needed. So I wrote a VBA module (not included) that cycles through each graphic in a document. Each graphic gets pasted to the clipboard and then calls the Delphi program that creates a JPG file according to the name that is provided as a parameter.
I'm very grateful to anyone that would like to improve what I have done here. The coding was pieced together from books and other websites and seems to work well enough, but I'm certain it could be improved.
program CLP2JPG;
{$APPTYPE CONSOLE}
uses
Windows, Messages, SysUtils, Variants, Classes, Graphics,
ClipBRD, Jpeg;
var
myBitmap: TBitmap;
myJpegImg: TJpegImage;
i: Integer;
TargetFile: string;
begin
myBitmap := TBitmap.Create;
myJpegImg := TJpegImage.Create;
for i := 0 to ParamCount do
Write('Parameter '+IntToStr(i)+' = '+ParamStr(i)+#13#10);
if paramstr(1) = '' then
begin
Write('A file name is required');
Exit;
end;
try
if Clipboard.HasFormat(cf_Bitmap) then
begin
myBitmap.Assign(clipboard);
myJpegImg.Assign(myBitmap);
myJpegImg.SaveToFile(ParamStr(1));
end
else
Write('No graphic on the clipboard');
finally
myBitmap.FreeImage;
myJpegImg.Free;
end;
end.