I´ve a cropped picture in a powerpoint layer and I want to change the picture without changing the size of the cropping area.
If I change the image by clicking "change picture" the cropping area resizes too, to show the whole picture.
How can I do that without changing the cropping area?
In Apple Keynote you only have to drag the picture you want to the cropping area and you only have to align it.
From my experience, I'm afraid you have to set the crop manually by "Format Picture" -"Crop" to remain the same cropping area when you replace a picture.
This isn't much help, but Libreoffice will do this. Crop, resize, then select your image and re-insert a new image - formatting will be the same, perfect for when you want to quickly redo formatting for same sized images.
In my experience, a picture that you insert to replace an existing one, using Change Picture, will "inherit" the crop&size settings of the old picture IF the old&new images are actually of the same size (in pixels) - if not, the new one will revert to the default crop&size so you will have to redo these manually.
This changes if the image to-be-replaced has any crop setting applied to it in Powerpoint. In this case, the replacing image will not inherit those, and might also be inserted with a different size&position, leading most likely to an unwanted result & further work needed.
A workaround I found is to first remove the crop setting from the old picture, replace with new image, then reapply the crop. This is still less work than having to manually redo the size&position (or to define these based on numbers copied from the PropertiesPane of the old image).
Quick work around: if you plan to have multiple same size images and you wish to use change image to swap the content on each page (something we do with floor plans all the time); don't bother cropping them.
Put the whole image in and crop it by sticking shapes on top of it, which are the same color as the presentation background color, like a mask.
optionally crop the images only when the whole presentation is finished.
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I'm working on a report project and would like to avoid making a separate image for each indicator color. Ideally, I like to put a transparent circle in a white rectangle. I have Snag-It available and general Windows tools.
My plan is to put the Image in a table cell and change the color of the circle by dynamically assigning the background color of the cell. I think it would be much easier to embed this one image, rather than creating a bunch of different colored circles that all have to be embedded.
Any suggestions on how I can do this in Snag-It or Paint, or any tools that are free for commercial use that you can recommended for this?
This sounds like a good workaround to get an indicator with whatever color you want.
Paint.net is a free image editor that you could create this in. Start with a white square. Use the Ellipse Select tool to select a circle in the middle. Press the Delete key to make it transparent. Save it as a .PNG file and embed it in the report.
i can't remove the white background when saving as png or jpeg.
tried everything what suggested me on the web, but still get the diminsions i set up as whitebackground.
How can i save image without the background?
see image below for settings.
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if you want to remove all the white from the picture, better go to color range and sample white. layer via cut and delete the layer. and save it in png as #cybernatic.nomad said, supports transparency.
Make sure you have created your image on a new layer and delete (or hide) the first white layer. I just created a simple text on a new layer with a transparent background and then loaded the image back into Photoshop to confirm that it works properly. As per previous comment I use .png format to preserve transparency.
I want to export certain shapes in powerpoint as images. For that I am using the following code:
ActivePresentation.Slides(1).Shapes(3).Export "C:\dink_template\created_files\testimg.jpg", ppShapeFormatJPG
I also tried with other image formats:
ActivePresentation.Slides(1).Shapes(3).Export "C:\dink_template\created_files\testimg.png", ppShapeFormatPNG
and I get this image:
Here you cannot notice because the white peace that appears in the image button (and also a bit in the top) is mixing with the page but if you make inspect element on the photo you will see it.
As you can see in this other image in powerpoint the shape fix perfectly and it is not bigger that the image:
Why is appearing this white peace in the top and in the button? How can I export the image without them?
EDIT
I know when it is happening. Because I try with other ones and sometimes they where not appearing and sometime it was. The problem is that when the text you write in the shape is so close to the border and you export it as image it export with this white space. Now the question is... how can I solve this?
One option would be to adjust the size of your shape and/or the size of the text accordingly to the total text length, before exporting it as an image, in order to make sure that your text will never be too close to the border...
Something else: have you checked the margins properties of your shape? Putting them to 0 might help a bit.
I am trying to reference images with a greater height than width (portrait format) in KML script for Google Earth; however, the image always comes out as landscape, or rotated left 90 degrees, e.g.
<img id="id_photo" src="2012_01_21-dscf03.jpg" width="500"></img>
I've tried everything I could think of. Is there a image tag to correct this, e.g., format="portrait"?
Thanks,
Walter
This sounds like an example of EXIF only rotation. Which GE probably doesn't honour.
Some cameras etc, 'rotate' a image so its the right way up by setting a flag in the EXIF data. The raw JPG itself, is still in the landscape format.
A display (or convert) program, should hopefilly notice this 'rotation required' flag, and rotate the image.
But Google Earth probably doesnt honor it, so you are just seeing the baseline image as its actully stored (unrotated)
Recommend trying one of the applications mentioned here:
http://jpegclub.org/losslessapps.html
(many note they have automatic correction - so should "fix" your jpg files)
This is already an old thread, but I stumbled on the same problem. And did not find a solution for my situation. Eventually I found a way around, so I thought I'd share it here.
Basically the solution is to rotate the offending images twice, once 90° to the left and then back again.
What you had was an image with a width larger than the height, but with an orientation tag that tells an application to rotate it 90° (but Google Earth does not).
After rotating it twice it is an image with width and height switched, and an orientation tag that says not to rotate it.
Now any application, including Google Earth, will display it correctly.
I used ExifTool to write the tags for all my images to a CSV file, created a list from that with all the pictures to rotate, and used that list to tell IrfanView twice to rotate them.
I have a dynamically generated PDF that can be in one of two modes. If in a draft mode, the only real difference is a watermark that states DRAFT on each page.
I am using a page event, so on the startpage I print the image, so that it is under everything. When I did this on the endpage event then it would be on top of everything, which was bad.
I would like to have alternating colors on the tables so that it is easier to see, but if I set the gray background to be 0.9 then it is opaque and the watermark is covered. If I set the background color to be null and the gray color is 1.0 then it is transparent.
So, my question is, on the non-white alternating rows can I get the watermark to be seen.
Ideally it would be nice to be able to place the image on top of the layer with the borders and background colors, so it would be under the text, but, it appears that isn't an option, as, when I use the stamp with the under content layer it would be under all the cells, since they all had colors set, so nothing was transparent.
UPDATE:
I haven't tried this yet, but it appears that if I save the PDF then using the PdfStamper I can save the graphics state, set the opacity for the image, then restore the graphics state, and it may work.
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=518686
But, I don't see any way to do what I would like without saving it first, as I am actually generating and streaming directly to the browser, and would prefer not to save, if possible.
By using the link in my final update I was able to get the watermark to work.
So, I save the file, then I use a MemoryStream to read in the file and I save the graphics state, set the opacity, set the watermark and then restore the graphics state.
I then stream this back to the browser and delete the file.
I haven't found any way to do it that works better than this. What is nice is that an image is not needed for the watermark, so I set the font size to 96pts, and that seemed to work fine, in landscape and portrait mode.