CyberTaz said:
Hey Jim - Just curious - if you do that does the Motion Path still work if
you run the show in Mac PPt?
Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac
What a PITA OpenOffice is!
Here's what happened in my test today with today's flavors of OO.
NeoOffice version 2.2.3 with Patch 5
Did not display or allow me to edit the motion path. I am positive that
previous builds had motion path editing working. Grrrr.
OpenOffice version 2.40 does display motion paths and lets me edit them.
Each and every time you save the document you have to visit Tools >
Options, check the load and save checkboxes next to "PowerPoint to
OpenOffice.org Impress/OpenOffice.org impress to PowerPoint" It seems to
be about 50/50 whether the file is saved correctly from OpenOffice.
"Correctly" meaning that PowerPoint will honor the motion path. I tried
half a dozen times with various shapes and motion paths. Sometimes it
works. Sometimes not. Wasn't able to figure out the reason or a pattern.
Grrr
OO version 3 is now downloading but at the rate they deliver it (68KB)
it won't be here till day after tomorrow. Speakeasy says I'm getting
2MB/sec so it's them. Grrr
Which leads me to the next thing - since it will be about 2 years before
we see a new version of Mac Office, should I make an add-in that edits
motion paths? Granted, it won't work for PowerPoint 2008, but it will
work with 2004.
MVP Shyam Pillai posted this code to a newsgroup question about motion
paths. This code works in Mac PowerPoint 2004:
Sub AddMotionPath()
Dim shpNew As Shape
Dim effNew As Effect
Dim aniMotion As AnimationBehavior
Set shpNew = ActivePresentation.Slides(1).Shapes _
.AddShape(Type:=msoShape5pointStar, Left:=0, _
Top:=0, Width:=100, Height:=100)
Set effNew = ActivePresentation.Slides(1).TimeLine.MainSequence _
.AddEffect(Shape:=shpNew, effectId:=msoAnimEffectCustom, _
Trigger:=msoAnimTriggerWithPrevious)
Set aniMotion = effNew.Behaviors.Add(msoAnimTypeMotion)
With aniMotion.MotionEffect
.Path = "M 0 0 L -0.25 0 E"
End With
End Sub
I think I would have to install Windows PowerPoint 2003 to get at the
object model help. There's a posting that indicates a change was made
in PPT 2007. I'd have to figure out how to tell a shape to follow a
particular line. Not even sure it's possible.
-Jim
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