VBA Shape geometry.

[Guest]

I've been tackling the problem of PowerPoint resizing (distorting) when you
change the page size. got a problem though.

Spent the last 2 days with my head (whilst operating a gig!) in trig working
out how to scale rotated shapes relative to the page horizontal axis. i.e.
mimic'ing what PP2003 does on a resize. Scalewidth and scaleheight don't do
it.
For example a rotated square becomes a squashed rotated oblong with angles
not 90deg.

Anyone want more info, I can send my notes. Only solution I can see in PP
is to transfer the object into a new presentation - resize the page then copy
the object out again. Not very efficient.

cheers, Kyle

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Effective is always efficient.

The transferring method gives proportion priority over placement.
PowerPoint by default does the opposite. I do not speak for them, but I
believe their logic is that if everything fit on the slide before you
changed the size, it should fit after. Neither way is always right. If PPT
did it the other way, people would be complaining that stuff falls off the
edges of the slide when it is re-sized.

Good luck with the app.


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