Office 2003 Microsoft Picture Manager (SP2)

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Is there any way to automate the resizing and exporting of a .jpg image from another office product via vba by adding Microsoft Picture Manager as a programming reference?

Thank you for any assistance you may be able to offer.

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I don’t think Picture Manager has an exposed programming interface. Perhaps you can use Microsoft Office Document Imaging – you can set a reference to that. See
Microsoft Office 2003 Edition Document Imaging VBA Language Reference and
Using the Microsoft Office Document Imaging 2003 Object Model

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If you are able to download and install a large open source program, ImageMagick has a COM object interface that lets you do amazing things. The COM object actually is a wrapper around the program’s command-line interface; very interesting but initially difficult to figure out as the documentation is sparse.

I have used the ImageMagick control in a PowerPoint VBA project as follows: (1) export slide as PNG, native PowerPoint command; (2) convert PNG to GIF, erasing a pre-selected background color, using the ImageMagick control; repeat. As always when working with unfamiliar COM interfaces, save often to avoid code loss when PowerPoint suddenly closes for no reason!

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