I am using Powerpoint 2007 and am using Aspose.Slides.Pptx. Version of DLL is 4.1.1.0
I want to replace the content within text frames in a slide dynamically with some input text at run time. For example, with a text frame, I might have a line like:
"This report is ran on @@footnote_asOfDate"
I might want to replace @@footnote_asOfDate with “December 31, 2009”.
So I call a method:
ReplaceTextFrameContent(textFrame, @@footnote_asOfDate, “December 31, 2009”)
But I found that as I loop through TextFrameEx.Paragragphs.Portions.Text,
each loop detects (or matches): @, @, footnote_asOfDate and failed to detect the special marker
@@footnote_asOfDate in its entirety.
Using a special marker like, @footnote_asOfDate@, gave me similar problems.
Another problem I found is if I have a line like this:
"Amount is $@@numberInBillions billion in revenue"
If I am successful replacing the @@numberInBillions marker by a number, the space immediately following the marker is deleted so the result is:
“Amount is 8billion in revenue”.
How should I build my special marker? Are there special symbols I should avoid?
What are the rules I need to follow?
The method ReplaceTextFrameContent(…), I have is below:
Public Shared Sub ReplaceTextFrameContent(ByVal ptf As TextFrameEx, ByVal pstrPattern As String, ByVal pnewText As String)
For Each para As ParagraphEx In ptf.Paragraphs
For Each port As PortionEx In para.Portions
If port.Text.Contains(pstrPattern) Then
port.Text = port.Text.Replace(pstrPattern, pnewText)
End If
Next
Next
End Sub
It is not clear how a paragraph is split in to portions.
Sometimes a line like:
"This report is ran on @@footnote_asOfDate"
would have portions like:
“This report is ran on @@”
“footnote_asOfDate”.
I do not have this problem on all the slides.
Some other slides I use slightly different markers like this line below:
Slide 1
.O
{color:black;
font-size:149%;}
a:link
{color:#BE6F20 !important;}
a:active
{color:#336699 !important;}
a:visited
{color:#990000 !important;}
<o:shapelayout v:ext=“edit”></o:shapelayout><o:idmap v:ext=“edit” data=“1”></o:idmap><p:colorscheme colors="#ffffff,#000000,#b2b2b2,#808080,#94b735,#336699,#be6f20,#990000">
and this line would work fine and the marker would get replaced without problems.
</p:colorscheme>
Hi,
I have worked on the problem specified by you. Actually, the text remain in a single portion as long as the font related properties are not changed in the respective paragraph. So, when some font related properties like font color, size, family and other properties are changed then the portion will get separate. I have shared the presentation file where by you may access the desired string from "This report is ran on @@footnote_asOfDate" on portion level. If you may please change font color of "@@footnote_asOfDate" or make the said string bold, then you will abe able to access the desired string. As a work around, change the font color of target string pattern and save the presentation. Again open the same presentation and restore the old color of the target string pattern. You will observe the text in separate portions. For your kind reference, the code snippet is attached as well.
Dim pres As Aspose.Slides.Pptx.PresentationEx
Dim pptxFile As String = "D:/ppt/Test_TextFrame.pptx"
Dim outputFile As String = "D:/ppt/TextFrame_output.pptx"
pres = New Aspose.Slides.Pptx.PresentationEx(pptxFile)
For Each sl As SlideEx In pres.Slides
For Each sh As ShapeEx In sl.Shapes
If sh.AlternativeText.Length > 0 Then
Dim txFrame As TextFrameEx = CType(sh, AutoShapeEx).TextFrame
For Each Para As ParagraphEx In txFrame.Paragraphs
For Each Portion As PortionEx In Para.Portions
If Portion.Text.Contains("@@TotaSalesInBillions") Then
Portion.Text = Portion.Text.Replace("@@TotaSalesInBillions", "10.0")
ElseIf Portion.Text.Contains("@@footnote_asOfDate") Then
Portion.Text = Portion.Text.Replace("@@footnote_asOfDate", "December 31, 2009")
End If
Next
Next
End If
Next
Next
pres.Write(outputFile)
Thanks and Regards,
You must be right.
I see the whole line in the Text Frame in my slide having the same format but anyway I erase the whole line and retyped the text and problem went away.
Thanks very much!