Hello,

how can I set the color of bullets in new created paragraphs using the PPTX format?

There is no ParagraphEx#setBulletColor(...) method.
I also can find no way to set a picture bullet in ParagraphEx objects to use an image as colored bullets, even though it's possible to set the BulletType to BulletTypeEx.PICTURE.

Also, if I copy all bullet properties from a template text shape to a new created paragraph on a new slide using the following code, I get a corrupted PPTX file (PowerPoint tells me that some objects, texts or images can not be displayed since they were damaged):

newParagraph.setBulletType(templateParagraph.getBulletType());
newParagraph.setBulletChar(templateParagraph.getBulletChar());
newParagraph.setBulletFont(templateParagraph.getBulletFont());      newParagraph.setBulletHeight(templateParagraph.getBulletHeight());
newParagraph.setBulletHardColor(templateParagraph.isBulletHardColor());
newParagraph.setBulletHardFont(templateParagraph.isBulletHardFont());


Can you please help me?


Kind Regards
Stefan Waldmann

Hi Stefan,

para.getBulletColor().setColor(java.awt.Color.BLUE);

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Hello Mudassir,

thanks for your reply. Can you tell me how long it will take for the issue to be fixed? We are already in development and need a quick decision if we implement our features with the PPTX format or if we have to switch back to PPT since coloured bullets are not possible using PPTX.

What we also need (and what does not seem to work) is to set the bullet char and font - the black square (char 61550) of the Wingdings font - in new created paragraphs.

Setting the bullet char and color only works with existing paragraphs of shapes which already exist on a PowerPoint template file, but not with shapes which are created on a new presentation created with the default constructor.


Thanks & Regards
Stefan

Hi Stefan,

//Instantiate a Presentation object that represents a PPT file

PresentationEx pres = new PresentationEx();

SlideEx slide = pres.getSlides ().get(0);

int x=slide.getShapes ().addAutoShape (com.aspose.slides.pptx.ShapeTypeEx.RECTANGLE, 100, 100, 300, 300);

AutoShapeEx aShp=(AutoShapeEx)slide.getShapes().get(x);

aShp.addTextFrame("Hello World");

TextFrameEx txtFrm = aShp.getTextFrame();

//Getting the first paragraph of the text frame

ParagraphEx para = txtFrm.getParagraphs().get(0);

//Enabling symbolic paragraph bullet

boolean bul= para.hasBullet ();// = true;

para.setBulletType(BulletTypeEx.SYMBOL) ;

//Setting block character as bullet

para.setBulletChar ( '\u25A0');

para.setText("Welcome to Aspose.Slides");

para.getBulletColorFormat().setColor(java.awt.Color.BLUE);

para.getBulletColor().setColor(java.awt.Color.BLUE);

ParagraphEx para2 = new ParagraphEx();

para2.setText( "This numbered bullet");

 para2.setBulletType(BulletTypeEx.NUMBERED);

para2.getBulletColorFormat().setColor(java.awt.Color.BLUE);

para2.getBulletColor().setColor(java.awt.Color.BLUE);

para2.setNumberedBulletStyle(NumberedBulletStyleEx.BULLET_CIRCLE_NUM_WD_BLACK_PLAIN);

txtFrm.getParagraphs().add(para2);

pres.write("d:\\modified.pptx");

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Hi Mudassir,

thanks for your reply. Setting the square works as you described.

Unfortunately using the template presentation is not an option, since we need to multiply the shapes dynamically (for each of n objects in the database a report slide is generated). This is another issue we have to deal with, since the PPTX format classes do not provide (yet?) the means to clone / copy shapes, so that we have to recreate them from scratch by copying each of the template shapes' properties...

Kind regards
Stefan

Hi Stefan,

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Hi Mudassir,

what I need is not n bullets for n objects from the database, but n shapes for n objects from the database, with m bullets (m for the number of child objects). For example in the database there are n authors. So I need one shape for each of the n authors. Each author has written m books, so I need m bullets in each shape (m being different for each shape). The problem therefore is to clone the shape n times.

Unfortunately before buying the license we concentrated too much on the PPT format when evaluating the library. There everything we need worked fine, and we expected that all what works for PPT also must work for PPTX, which is most regrettably not the case. Now we have big problems because there is no cloning or serealization function and we must do very much by ourself, copying all attributes of the template shape manually into new objects.

We also do not want to switch back to PPT, which is an old format that may not be supported any more in the future.

Using the shapes of the pptx template presentation is not an option, because of the problem described above, or more generally, that we need to build very flexible kinds of reports, consisting of different components (i.e. groups of shapes) which can be configured for each report, and each component existing multiple times (the number is determined dynamically based on database entries).

It seems that we can make most of it work by workarounds and more effort than expected, but one thing what doesn't work at all are the colored bullets.

So could you please tell me how long it will take for the issue to be fixed? You also wrote in your first post that you requested the status for the implementation of Picture Bullets in PPTX, can you tell me what the status is?


Kind regads
Stefan

Hi Stefan,

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Hello Mudassir,

thanks for the information. Unfortunately this will be too late for our current release. However we'll be looking forward to test the features of the coming autoported version.

Kind regards
Stefan

Hi Stefan,

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Hi Stefan,

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