Received : 2007/07/30 14:28:36
Message : I'm a perspective buyer and was wondering how your able to put a new textbox onto a new slide. I've created a new slide and the variable is mySlide. I'm not sure how to add a new object onto the slide.

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Dear Crafte,

 

Thank you for considering Aspose.Slides.

 

Textboxes are called TextFrames in Aspose.Slides. Below is the code that add a textframe in presentation and write it on disk.

 

 

I have attached the presentation generated by this code for you to view alongwith the code.

 

void AddSampleTextFrame()

{

//Create presentation

Presentation srcPres = new Presentation();

//Get first Slide, first slide is added automatically

Slide firstSlide = srcPres.GetSlideByPosition(1);

//Add Rectangle inside the first slide

//This rectangle will contain the textframe inside it

Aspose.Slides.Rectangle rect = firstSlide.Shapes.AddRectangle(300, 1000, 5200, 1);

//Make its line invisble

rect.LineFormat.ShowLines = false;

//Now add a text frame inside the rectangle with some sample text

rect.AddTextFrame("This is sample text.This is sample text.This is sample text.This is sample text.This is sample text.This is sample text.This is sample text.This is sample text.This is sample text.This is sample text.This is sample text.This is sample text.This is sample text.This is sample text.");

TextFrame tf = rect.TextFrame;

//Bold the text

tf.Paragraphs[0].Portions[0].FontBold = true;

//Set its wrap text property true, so it wraps text automatically

tf.WrapText = true;

//Set this propert true, so textframe can chage its shape automatically

tf.FitShapeToText = true;

//write the presentation

srcPres.Write("c:\\outSampleTextFrame.ppt");

}

 

If you are new to Aspose.Slides, then please read Programmer’s Guide section on Aspose.Slides Wiki from the link below

http://www.aspose.com/Downloads/Aspose.Slides/Default.aspx

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Shakeel Faiz
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Hi,

    Thanks for the reply.  Is the code you wrote up top in Java?  Thats what I'm currently using and I'm getting a few errors.  I see the logic you used.   I've tried to use Apache POI HSLF and the main reason I'm looking to buy another software is their lack of ability to format certain portions of the "TextFrame" .  I was wondering if Apose can do that?  I've posted an example below.  Thanks

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This is sample text.This is sample text.This is sample text.This is sample text.This is sample text.This is sample text.This is sample text.This is sample text.This is sample text.This is sample text.This is sample text.This is sample text.This is sample text.This is sample text

 

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I need to be able to add bullets to certain sections of the paragraphs as well as bold, underline, and italics text.  Does Aspose have the functionality built in?   I'm looking to trasnfer HTML into powerpoint slides.  Thanks again for the help.  I hope Aspose is the suite I'm looking for.

 

Dear Crafte,

 

The code is actually in C#, but since the both versions of Aspose.Slides i.e .NET and JAVA support almost same APIs, the code can easily be converted into the JAVA.

 

The only difference is that read/write properties in JAVA have prefixes get and set.

 

For example, in C# you can change the text of the TextFrame using this code

Tf.Text=”Some text”;

 

But the same thing in JAVA would be like this

Tf.setText(“Some Text”);

 

To see online reference of JAVA APIs for Aspose.Slides for Java, follow this link

http://www.aspose.com/Products/Aspose.Slides/JavaDoc/

 

And for .NET follow this link

http://www.aspose.com/Products/Aspose.Slides/Api/

 

Yes, Aspose.Slides provide the ability to format portions of the text inside the textframe. Each textframe contains a collection of paragraph objects each of which contains a collection of portion objects.

 

For example, if you want to set the second portion of the first paragraph of textframe to bold font, you will write code like this

 

tf.Paragraphs[0].Portions[0]..FontBold=true (C#)

 

tf.getParagraphs().get(0).getPortions(1).setFontBold(true) (JAVA)

 

Please also see Working with Text section in Programer’s Guide on Aspose.Slides Wiki. It includes code examples in C#, VB.NET, JAVA and PHP

http://www.aspose.com/Wiki/Default.aspx/Aspose.Slides/

 

You can set the font bold, italic, underline, add bullets. However you will have to write code yourself to covert HTML to PowerPoint.

 

 

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Shakeel Faiz
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I have a similar problem. I have to use the formatting as shown in the attached image. Does Aspose NOW support the html in the textframe? Or we still need to add code for converting HTML to render correctly in the textframe?

Aspose.Slides cannot import html formatting, so you will have to write such a code yourself.

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Many Thanks and Kind Regards,

Shakeel Faiz
Support Developer
Aspose Sialkot Team
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