Images added to a slide when in "Notes Page" view

Aspose.Slides Product Family
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Aspose doesn’t appear to be able to save images placed in the notes.

To reproduce this:

  1. Open a 97-2003 power point file in Power Point 2007.
  2. Select View -> Notes Page
  3. Select Insert -> Picture and drag a picture into the area SURROUNDING the slide.
  4. Select Save As -> PowerPoint 97-2003 Presentation
  5. In the C# code do the following:
var pres = new Presentation();
pres.Save(, Aspose.Slides.Export.SaveFormat.Ppt);

If you open the file back up and look at the slide you will see the following error:

"The image cannot be displayed. Your computer may not have enough memory to open the image…"

This functionality is critical to the application we are trying to build.
2

Hello Dear,

I have implemented the scenario shared by you and have been able to reproduce the issue shared by you. An issue with ID 22451 has been created in our issue tracking system to further investigate and resolve the issue. This thread has also been linked with the issue, so that you may be automatically notified, once the issue is resolved.

We are sorry for your inconvenience,

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Any updates on this issue? I have a critical need for this functionality. If purchasing premium service would guarantee a result quickly, I would consider that. Thanks for your past support. This is just a fundamental functionality that we all assumed would be in place.

If it helps or matters, you can accomplish this immediately in VBScript with Windows Development API by selected the NotesPage object and simply calling AddPicture:

' Add image to notes page
txtPictureName = "C:\ActiveProjects\NotesImage.png"
Set newPic = currSlide.NotesPage.Shapes.AddPicture(txtPictureName, msoFalse, msoTrue, 1.24 * dpi, 0.63 * dpi, 5.02 * dpi, 3.77 * dpi)

This is our current solution that properly generates the PowerPoint, but we can not automate this server-side with Windows Automation.

Thanks!

Chuck Rinker
nuMedia Innovations

4

Hi Rinker,


I appreciate your suggesting the workaround. However, the images Load/Save in Notes view feature is not currently part of Aspose.Slides and it needs to be developed from scratch but due to its dependency and other in parallel development tasks, the expected ETA is no later than Q1 2011 and will be part of next major release. We have already added in Product roadmap and the priority is also set to high.


The support developer will notify you once this feature will be made available in public API.