I'm trying to do some standardized document manipulation specifically in a Windows environment on Word documents. For frustratingly silly reasons, I'd also like to do this in VBscript or at least language tools available in Vanilla Windows 10 + Office.
As it stands, the documents coming in all have a standardized text Watermark on them, and I'd like to replace that watermark with a new text watermark. From what I've been able to gather, the watermark is some sort of generalized shape object. I've had some fiddly success finding and deleting all shapes, but it's not clear to me if there is a way to inspect each shape and determine if it is the correct shape in VBscript, or to replace the text hiding somewhere within the shape structure to produce a new watermark.
My deletion looks something like the following, where lDoc is a document object of document I'm manipulating.
sub UpdateWatermark(lDoc)
Dim section
Dim hdr, hdr_rng, sp, str
dim cnv
dim rng
for each section in lDoc.Sections
for each hdr in section.Headers
For each sp in hdr.Shapes
if InStr(sp.Name, "PowerPlusWaterMarkObject") > 0 Then
sp.Delete
End if
next
next
next
end sub
The strange thing with this brute force deletion approach is I'm seeing many PowerPlusWaterMarkObjects in the header, but only one is the "for real" watermark. I also am not sure how to create a new object and insert it with the same properties as the one I'm deleting. My preference would be to simply find the watermark object and manipulate it directly. Any Guru's out there who could lend me a hand?
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I've been searching for a while and can't imagine that there isn't a way ...
Is it possible to create an object in PowerPoint, and create "dynamic copies" of that that will ALL change when you edit one?
Like what in Flash used to be called an "instance" (and object oriented programming OOP in general? not sure) .
Like what in
Illustrator is called a "symbol".
In Sketchup a "component" has this behavior.
In Revit a "group" sort of tries to do this in a terrible
way.
Even a way to link an external (vector or raster image) file would be fine as a workaround, but not even that is possible in PowerPoint?!
Many thanks!//r
I just make all the shapes of one type have the same name, e.g: Menu_BTN in my shape's selection pane.
And if I want to change the colour of those buttons spread over 100s of slides, I use the following macro:
Sub ChangeMenuBTNColour()
Dim ppt As Presentation
Set ppt = ActivePresentation
Dim sld As Slide
For Each sld In ppt.Slides
Dim shp As Shape
For Each shp In sld.Shapes
If shp.Name = "Menu_BTN" Then
shp.Fill.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(252, 225, 212)
End If
Next
Next sld
End Sub
I find ABCPDF is very capable. However, so far I had not managed to find a way to draw one PDF into another with rounded corners - until now. But, the approach I discovered depends on getting the correct PDF object id for the inserted PDF stream, and herein lies the reason for this question.
Anyone who knows ABCPDF will ask why that is an issue ? Does not the addImageDoc() function which embeds one PDF inside another return the PDF object ID ? No - it returns something else - most likely the inserted PDF goes into the document catalogue as an isolated object and what you get in the returned ID is an object that refers to it. Unpacking the document streams seems to bear this out.
Long story short, in my experimenting I found that I needed to insert into the stream a 'Do' call, with the target of that derived as:
imgObjId = addImageDoc(some pdf object) // inserted off-page
insert into stream "/Iabc<imgObjId + 1> Do"
For example, if the returned imgObjId value is 5 then I need it to be 6 to make
/Iabc6 Do
Question: Whilst this works OK, I am relying on adding one to the returned value and I wonder how robust that is going to be. Or is there a correct way to achieve this ?
More info: I have kept the question short but readers may be wondering why the above matters? Because to achieve rounded corners you need to construct a stream of PDF commands which has a clipping region defined. Think of a path for a rectangle with Bezier curves for the corners. Having got that, you need to draw an image, or in my case another PDF, into the same context so as to get the clipping effect. After that you can close and reset the graphics state and be a good PDF stack citizen. However, there is no means, other than my approach above, that I can find in ABCPDF to get a handle on the inserted PDF doc stream in the catalogue so as to be able to ask for it to be drawn somewhere else.
Inserting an image seems to be a similar process, except the getinfo() function can discover the pixmap. There appears to be no like approach for an embedded PDF.
I don't know if you can change the target abcpdf rectangle prior to do a "AddImageDoc".
Maybe you can do a trick, getting a Bitmap from the source, editing it by changing borders, and adding to a new doc. Something like this:
Dim oDoc As New WebSupergoo.ABCpdf10.Doc
Dim oImg As System.Drawing.Bitmap
oDoc.Read("D:\source.pdf")
oImg = oDoc.Rendering.GetBitmap()
' image quality can be improved with .Rendering properties as 'AntiAliasImages', etc.
oDoc.Dispose()
oDoc = Nothing
Dim oGraph As System.Drawing.Graphics = System.Drawing.Graphics.FromImage(oImg)
Dim gPath As New System.Drawing.Drawing2D.GraphicsPath
Dim oBrush As New System.Drawing.SolidBrush(System.Drawing.Color.Red) ' only to see the rectangle... white when be ready
gPath.AddRectangle(New System.Drawing.Rectangle(0, 0, oImg.Width, oImg.Height))
' 2 / 100 it's the percent factor for borders
Dim iLeftBorder As Integer = CInt(2 / 100 * (oImg.Width / 2))
Dim iTopBorder As Integer = CInt(2 / 100 * (oImg.Height / 2))
gPath.AddEllipse(New System.Drawing.Rectangle(iLeftBorder, iTopBorder, oImg.Width - (iLeftBorder * 2) - 1, oImg.Height - (iTopBorder * 2) - 1))
oGraph.FillPath(oBrush, gPath)
oBrush.Dispose()
oGraph.Dispose()
oDoc = New WebSupergoo.ABCpdf10.Doc
oDoc.AddImageBitmap(oImg, False)
oDoc.Save("D:\finalpath.pdf")
oDoc.Dispose()
oDoc = Nothing
But it's only a "trick".
I've very limited knowledge of PowerPoint but have been asked to create a presentation slide where I would have to click areas on a map and that would change color and increment a number (population). I am able to change the color of the map on click and I'm able to display a bubble but I am not able to increment the population number based on the areas of the map that are clicked.
I've looked at some solutions around here and did some research online but couldn't find anything that would point me in the right direction.
Is there a way to create a variable and pass a number when you click a specific area of the map, which is a Freeform.
Thank you in advance for the help.
You can set each shape's Action Setting to Run Macro: (macro name)
That will run the VBA subroutine called (macro name) when you click on the shape during a slide show.
Mac PowerPoint has a few bugs that keep this from working as smoothly as it does in Windows PowerPoint but the code below works around these issues and works in either version.
Sub IncrementNumber(oSh as Shape)
Dim oSl as Slide
Dim oShTemp as Shape
' oSh.Parent returns a valid reference to the shape's host slide:
Set oSl = ActivePresentation.Slides(oSh.Parent.SlideIndex)
' and oSh.Name works as well
' So we use those two bits to get a reference
' to the clicked shape like so
Set oShTemp = oSl.Shapes(oSh.Name)
With oShTemp
.TextFrame.TextRange.Text = _
Cstr(CLng(oShTemp.TextRange.Text) + 1)
End With
End Sub
About this bit:
Cstr(CLng(oShTemp.TextRange.Text) + 1)
This gets the current text in the shape, converts it from text (string) to a number so we can do arithmetic on it, adds 1 to it, then converts it back to text so we can plug it back into the shape's text.
If you don't know what to do with VBA code examples, there's a tutorial on the PowerPoint FAQ site that I maintain:
How do I use VBA code in PowerPoint
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00033_How_do_I_use_VBA_code_in_PowerPoint.htm
I have looked far and wide and reached the end of my wits trying to figure out how to do this. I have looked on XtremeVBTalk.com and the rest of the internet on how to resize a damn StdPicture!
Does anyone know how to do this? Is this even possible?
Thank you so much in advance. I desire not to use any type libraries etc. so if that is offered in a solution I don't think I will be able to use it.
I'm not using A picturebox control at all.
Say I have the following function header, and an StdPicture is passed in:
Private Function EncodeImageToBase64(ByRef Image As StdPicture) As String
I then have the following declarations where I intend on encoding the StdPicture to base64:
Dim xmlDoc As DOMDocument60
Dim xmlNode As MSXML2.IXMLDOMElement
Dim bColor() As Byte
Dim bMask() As Byte
Dim bImage() As Byte
Dim lCrcTable() As Long
Dim lWidth As Long
Dim lHeight As Long
EncodeImageToBase64 = vbNullString
If Image Is Nothing Then
Exit Function
End If
Call CRCTable(lCrcTable)
Call Icon2Arrays(Image, bColor, bMask, lWidth, lHeight)
If Not CreatePngByteArray(bImage, lWidth, lHeight, bColor, bMask, lCrcTable) Then
Debug.Assert False
Exit Function
End If
However, before calling that, I want to cut the image's width and height in half. How can I do so? CreatePngByteArray only supports 16x16 PNGs and I am using 32x32, so I'd like to cut them down in order to pass the asserts they have.
OK, I spent quite some time that I didn't really have on this one, because I didn't know the answer to begin with, but I was still interested in finding out what the potential solution was.
The following answer is my understanding of what you are trying to do, but may not be the answer to the question itself, so it could very well be considered wrong.
So, here's what I came up with. You will need to use an IPictureDisp object instead of an StdPicture object. You will also need to use a PictureBox control, even if you don't really want to.
Create a new project. Add a form, or open an existing one if one is provided. Set the ScaleMode of the form to pixels. Add a PictureBox control on the form. Set the AutoRedraw property of the PictureBox control to 'True', the BorderStyle property of the control to 'None', and the Height and Width properties of the control to 16 pixels each. Add the following code to the form, and modify the location and type of the image that you want to resize, and then the location to save it to:
Private Sub Form_Load()
Dim TestPic As IPictureDisp
Set TestPic = LoadPicture("C:\Users\Your Name\Desktop\image.gif")
With TestPic
.Render Picture1.hDC, 0, 16, 16, -17, 0, 0, .width, .height, 0
End With
SavePicture Picture1.Image, "C:\Users\Your Name\Desktop\image2.bmp"
End Sub
The image can start with any of the types that Visual Basic 6 supports (.bmp, .cur, .gif, .ico, .jpeg or .jpg, and .wmf), but must always be saved in bitmap format. Please note that Visual Basic 6 does not support PNG file formats at all, so you will not be able to use any VB6 functions to open PNG files or create them.
I would be interested in other solutions that other people come up with.
Edit: Fixed dimensions.
Do you mean inside the PICTUREBOX control or inside an IMAGE CONTROL? Because If I remember correctly it has a STRETCH property which autofits the image to the container
#Zaf Khan beat me to it. I have something similar where I have a PictureBox. Under behaviour I have SizeMode set to StretchImage then when I load an image like so
LoadWebImageToPictureBox(ImagePreview, SelectedFile)
it auto fits.
I'm working with Access 2010's new ribbon feature, and I'm trying to figure out the simplest way to load an image to the ribbon from a table. I know that I could do this by using a GDI API function, but from what I can see the code looks convoluted and appears to utilize extra dlls that I would just as well avoid calling if I don't need to. I also know that I could create a control on a form, load the image to the form, and then load the image from the form to the ribbon image variable. While using the form is doable, it seems sloppy. Eventually, I will resort to one of the two preceding methods if I have to, but it just seems like there should be some simple way to load an image from a table directly into an image variable for the ribbon.
One thing to note is that I'm willing to use whatever image format is easiest. These icon files are very small and so I'm not concerned about file size and I also don't care whether or not they are capable of transparency. So if there's a method that only works with bitmap file types that is fine with me.
Here's the code I have for the button in the ribbon XML:
<button id="CCTrans" label="Credit Card Trans." getImage="GetMnuIcn" onAction="=OpenCCTrans()" />
And here's the code I have for retrieving the image:
Sub GetMnuIcn(control As IRibbonControl, ByRef Image)
Set Image = DLookup("Img", "LtblImg", "Lbl=""" & control.ID & """")
End Sub
I've tried storing the image both as an OLE Object and as an attachment. Either way, when I try to retrieve it, it gives me the error "Type Mismatch". For simplicity, I've been storing it as a bitmap, but I also tried .gif and .png in my first attempts.
Note: Apparently the ribbon icons are IPictureDisp objects. If I can just figure out how to load an image from a table into one of those object types, I should be able to use it for the ribbon.
Also, there's a lot of good information on Microsoft's website, but I haven't been able to piece it together into a solution yet. Here's a link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb187398.aspx
Well after tedious days of trying to find a better solution, I'm forced to pick between what I feel are various mediocre approaches. I really wanted to just load it directly into a variable, but the only method for doing that requires references to a bunch of dlls and has code that is pretty complicated. To avoid any extra dependencies and to keep my code simpler, I decided to go the route of assigning the table containing the attached images to a form, opening that form in hidden mode and then assigning the picture variables from the form.
For some reason the code that I saw elsewhere that loaded the pictures on demand via this method caused my program to crash and so I had to load the pictures into variables when the program opened and then have the menu bar set the icons from those variables when the menu is selected.
My code is as follows:
Dim Icn(15) As IPictureDisp, IcnLbl(15) As String
Function SetMnuIcn()
Dim Img As Recordset, i As Byte
DoCmd.OpenForm "frmImg", acNormal, , , acFormReadOnly, acHidden
Set Img = Forms!frmImg.Recordset
While Not Img.EOF
i = i + 1
Set Icn(i) = Forms!frmImg!Img.PictureDisp
IcnLbl(i) = Img!Lbl
Img.MoveNext
Wend
DoCmd.Close acForm, "frmImg", acSaveNo
End Function
Sub GetMnuIcn(control As IRibbonControl, ByRef Image)
Set Image = Icn(GetAryLoc(IcnLbl, control.ID, 15))
End Sub
Function GetAryLoc(varValues As Variant, varMatch As Variant, NumOfValues As Integer) As Integer
Dim i As Integer
For i = 1 To NumOfValues
If varValues(i) = varMatch Then GetAryLoc = i
Next
End Function
Note: To ensure that the icons have been loaded prior to when they are needed, I specified SetMnuIcn to run on ribbon load:
<customUI xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2009/07/customui" onLoad="=SetMnuIcn()">