I have to export some images into powerpoint (.ppt or .pptx format) using asp.net core 2.0. Any ideas welcome!
Maybe you could use SlideMight, a data merge tool for PowerPoint.
You should be able to get 1 slide per image, or 1 table row per image, or 1 table cell, or so. You can also make a thumbnail slide that links to 15 detail slides. You define this in a "pattern file", which is much like a PowerPoint template.
Your asp.net program should write the images to the file system, or have URLs available. It should also create an input data file (XML, JSON or YAML) that refers to these images. Then it should invoke SlideMight to generate the desired presentation. Normally SlideMight runs in a GUI. It should also be able to run as a command line program, although this has not been tested lately (please let me know if you need it).
Would this be of use?
Disclaimer: I am the developer and vendor of SlideMight.
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I'm trying to develop an extension that needs to render text, images and the preview of an external file in the code as a decoration. The problem is that I only can find text decoration and nothing that allows me to for example show a PNG between two lines of code without modifying the file.
Is this possible or I need to create a Custom Editor using the API? The problem of this solution is the need to integrate all the extension on the language I'm working what will take too much time.
I have seen the Comments API allows to show the reference of a text file but I can't find where is the API to generate this type of views:
The closest thing I can find is the Comments API with this sample. However, I need to add more than just text and the idea is to only show the content, nothing more.
Any guide, information or reference is highly appreciated.
I am trying to convert a pdf file to a crystal report file, is that even possible? IS there a software tool out there that does that?
I have looked on-line but can't find anything
The answer is no.
But given that the question is a bit odd (Crystal needs a data source), perhaps what you are after is embedding a PDF form outline in Crystal.
That can be done by inserting the PDF (or an image of the form) in the page header and taking advantage of the 'Uderlay Following Sections' option. This would make the form outline act as the background for the rest of the report, allowing you to position dynamic content on top of that image.
Okay, here's what's going on..
I have a folder that has 200 images in it.
They're all named - p001.png, p002.png, p003.png... all the way up to p200.png
I need to create an Action that pulls in 2 images at a time, in ascending order.
After Resizing & Positioning the images, I need to add text above each image that says "Image #X"
(in place of 'X', would be the number of the corresponding image)
Once it finishes with the 1st two images, it saves it in a specified folder; and pulls in the next 2 images.
And just repeats the process until it goes through all 200 images.
Here's my 2 questions:
1 - Is it possible to pull in 2 images at a time in ascending order, from a specified folder, via an Action?
2 - Is it possible to replace 'X' with the image's number, as it moves up in ascending order?
Any kind of help with this would be Greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
p.s. I'm using PhotoShop cs5.5 if that makes a difference
First checkout the Contact Sheet functionality, perhaps you can achieve your tasks this way.
In terms of scripting, there are indeed functions available to :
load a file into the document
create a text layer
set the text of the text layer
Check out the Photoshop CS5 JavaScript Language Reference for more details.
Additionally, you should have Extend Script Toolkit installed as well.
Run Extend Script Toolkit then give this a quick go:
#target photoshop
alert("Hello World!");
Using the Object Model Viewer (available under the Help menu) you should be able to select the Photoshop Type Library and view useful available objects such as Application,Document,Layer, etc. and see their properties and methods.
Additionally the Data Browser panel and autocomplete should help.
I have a lengthy PDF time tracking document that was printed out and used in a paper process to schedule appointments. Now this paper process is being converted to an online application and this application needs to generate reports in the same format as the PDF document (this time programatically inserting values into rows instead of having someone write them on the piece of paper).
My question is this, is possible to somehow import the layout of that PDF document into Telerik reporter's designer? Otherwise, is there some sort of an intermediary tool that I can use to make the layout more exportable?
Just to clarify, I am not trying to save my reports as PDF but trying to use a given PDF's layout to create a similar looking report in Telerik.
Any tips would be very welcome.
Thank you very much!
There are numerous tools for extracting text or images from pdf files, but I am pretty sure nothing exists to extract the layout of a pdf. The pdf format is just text and symbols with coordinates. There is no layout to extract.
I'm exporting PowerPoint presentations using PowerShell. This works fine with the Office XPS/PDF exporter plugin. However, only the complete slide, without animations, are exported.
When exporting a presentation as a web page, the presentation can be run step-by-step (e.g. revealing bullet points one by one) if you check the "Show slide animation while browsing" option (under "Web options").
Is there any way to generate a PDF with one page per animation step in the presentation, through scripting? (If not - any tips on how to do it in general?)
When exporting to PDF it will export simple text and images so animation are not there :(
For method to generate a page per animation, you will have to explore Powerpoint object model and use some PDF generation library like iTextSharp to out put all transitions one by one.
The Powerpoint Object model is here