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8 Drawings and Presentations
This chapter provides an introduction to the macro-controlled creation and editing of drawings and presentations.
The first section describes the structure of drawings, including the basic elements that contain drawings. The
second section addresses more complex editing functions, such as grouping, rotating, and scaling objects. The
third section deals with presentations.
Information about creating, opening, and saving drawings can be found in Working With Documents.
The Structure of Drawings
Pages
Tip - A Draw (or Impress) document is composed of pages, also called slides. What is written here also
applies to Impress documents.
OpenOffice.org does not limit the number of pages in a drawing document. You can design each page separately.
There is also no limit to the number of drawing elements that you can add to a page.
The pages of a drawing document are available through the DrawPages container. You can access individual
pages either through their number or their name. If a document has one page and this is called Slide 1, then the
following examples are identical.
Example 1: access by means of the number (numbering begins with 0)
Dim Doc As Object
Dim Page As Object
Doc = ThisComponent
Page = Doc.DrawPages(0)
Note – The expression Doc.DrawPages(0) is a Basic simplification of the API call :
Doc.getDrawPages.getByIndex(0)
Example 2: access by means of the name
Dim Doc As Object
Dim Page As Object
Doc = ThisComponent
Page = Doc.DrawPages.getByName("Slide 1")
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