PPT Specification

[Eldon Lewis]

I have an application that needs to parse a .ppt file and extract the text
and text location. The ppt specification has an example program that will
extract the text and I have that working but I have been unable to find the
correct procedure for getting the position, width and height of the textbox
on the slide.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Eldon

 

[John Wilson]

Maybe if you post the code you have ...
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[Eldon Lewis]

John asked for me to post the code. It's too large, but it was taken from
the PowerPoint97-2007BinaryFileFormat(ppt)Specification.pdf file.

http://tinyurl.com/2vqhhz

I have modified it slightly. The code is found at the end of the file. It
only gives me the text. As I say, I also need to get the location on the
slide of the textbox.

Thanks for any help.

Eldon

 

[Eldon Lewis]

Ah. Here, I think:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc313105.aspx

Looks like [MSO-DRAW].PDF is the one you want

I have looked at that document also and it's just as confusing as the ppt
one. I still have not found information on where the x,y,width,height of
the text box is to be located.

Any other thoughts?

Thanks,

Eldon