SaveAs emf (2002 SP3)

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Hi y’all,
I have developed a PP that allows me to enter a time and it will display the hands of a clock face at the correct time. I wish to use it to make work sheets to teach children the time.

I want to save the particular page that I am on as an emf file named as the time (e.g. 18-30.emf).

I can do this manually when I get a dialog up that asks if I wish to save only the current slide and it’ll write the file OK.

However, when I try automating it using VBA, it always creates a directory with the name and puts a slide called Slide1.EMF

Any ideas how I can convince PP that I want the slide with that name and not the directory?

Also, if there are multiple slides, how I can tell it that I only want it to save the current one?

TIA
Regards
Paul

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What is your code to save the slide? If you set an object reference to the slide you want to save, something like this should give you a lot of flexibility:

mySlide.Export “c:somefolder18-30.emf”, “emf”, 800, 600

Check out the help for the Export method for more info on the parameters.

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Thanks for that.

I can’t seem to see any difference when I change the scale factors. I tried changing them from 800, 600 to 8, 6 and the output file still appeard to be exactly the same.

What difference should I expect to see?

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I always thought those values were pixels, so if you get the same file for 8 and 800, then I don’t understand what the function is doing. But I tend to export to PNG format, which is a bitmap. If “emf” is a “mixed” or OLE-based format like “wmf,” then it may well behave quite differently.

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