This was the business case i had for the following.
Powerpoint was being used by company A to produce sales books from a set of templates they had.
These sales books contain slides which were both vertical and horizontal orientation
This was acheived by a manual process of creating two presentations (one horizontal, one vertical)
Printing them out , and then a member of staff sorting out the order. This also left two ppt files
containg the information in no sensible order.
This was the solution i came up.
Firslty i created two powerpoint presenations containg the templates, One for horizontal , one for vertical templates
I then used a third presentation for my code, which looked something like this
Code:
'Global pp_Final As Presentation ' Presenation we are creating
Global pp_Tools As Presentation ' This Presentation
Global pp_Vert As Presentation ' All Vertical Slides
Global pp_Horiz As Presentation ' All Horizontal slides
Global sld_cnt as integer 'slide counter
Global Const str_TempPath As String = "C:\sales_books\"
Sub CutdownExampleForFAQCreatingNewPresentation
'Reference the horizontal and vertical slides
Set pp_Vert = Application.Presentations.Open(str_TempPath & "PackVertical.ppt", , msoFalse, msoFalse)
Set pp_Horiz = Application.Presentations.Open(str_TempPath & "PackHoriz.ppt", , msoFalse, msoFalse)
Sld_Cnt = 1
'create a new presentation
Set pp_Final = Application.Presentations.Add
'Page set up
With pp_Final
.PageSetup.SlideOrientation = msoOrientationMixed
.PageSetup.SlideSize = ppSlideSizeA4Paper
End With
'In my original code i used a series of Select cases to decide what
'was needed in the final tax pack and there was a lot more processing involved
' this is cut down so apologies for any errors but hopefully it will give you
' enough to see whats happening.
'Firstly I add in a Vertical Slide
pp_Vert.Slides("sld_Cover").Copy
pp_Final.Slides.Paste
Sld_Cnt = Sld_Cnt + 1 'update counter
Set sld_Temp = pp_Final.Slides(Sld_Cnt) ' Select the slide
sld_Temp.Tags.Add "O", "V"
'Then a horizontal
pp_Horiz.Slides("sld_Map").Copy
pp_Final.Slides.Paste
Sld_Cnt = Sld_Cnt + 1 'update counter
Set sld_Temp = pp_Final.Slides(Sld_Cnt) ' Select the slide
sld_Temp.Tags.Add "O", "H"
'I now want to add in another Vertical Slide
pp_Vert.Slides("sld_Sales").Copy
pp_Final.Slides.Paste
Sld_Cnt = Sld_Cnt + 1 'update counter
End sub
Now what the above has done, has created a new presenation with 3 slides in it, One Vertival ,One Horizontal and Another Vertical
If you look at the presentation as it, you will see everything in the default page layout. Which is no good to us
IF you look at the above code, i used a tag property called O which stores a value of V for vertical slide and H for horizontal slides.
To Print my slides out in the correct orientation i used the following code
Code:
Public Sub CutDownProcess()
Dim var As Slide
Dim str_tpath As String
Dim str_A As String
'change orientation on tag and print out
For Each var In pp_Final.Slides
select case var.tag("O")
case "V"
pp_Final.PageSetup.SlideOrientation = msoOrientationVertical
case "H"
pp_Final.PageSetup.SlideOrientation = msoOrientationHorizontal
end select
pp_Final.PrintOut var.slideindex,var.slideindex
Next
End Sub
Presentation printed out correctly in order and stored in one place.
I did take this a stage further by at the same time of printing, creating a GIF of the slide using the export function and saving that down into a directory
code looked something like this
Code:
Select Case strType
Case "H"
pp_Final.PageSetup.SlideOrientation = msoOrientationHorizontal
Pixwidth = 1110
Pixheight = 870
Case "V"
pp_Final.PageSetup.SlideOrientation = msoOrientationVertical
Pixwidth = 870
Pixheight = 1110
End Select
ExportPath = str_pth
Set oSlide = pp_Final.Slides(int_sld)
With oSlide
.Export ExportPath & "Slide" & CStr(.SlideIndex) & ".GIF", "GIF", Pixwidth, Pixheight
End With
I then used a bit of javescript and html to enable someone to view that on screen in correct order ,
Another option is to put the slideorientation code above onto a button for next slide and , when someone plays
the slide show you can flip the orientation.
