Converting Back Into a GIF (URGENT)

[StrangeWill]

I have a workflow where we need to transfer our animated GIFs as an Excel™ Spreadsheet via e-mail, then be able to convert them back to GIF format on the destination computer once they've received the e-mail. It's a very urgent need.

Let me know when you can have this done.

[pugwonk]

I don't think email is the right medium for this - have you thought about fax?

[Duncan-Idaho]

This should be actually fairly easy:

• Open the XLSX file in Excel using OLE
• For each work sheet
  • Open the Worksheet
  • Take a snapshot
• Create a GIF containing all snapshots
• Nice to have
  • Use some image recognition analysis to crop the snapshots and keep only the images.