P3ICLI Change Log
v3.3 released 06/23/2020
- Documentation completes the transition to post-Office 2003 filename
suffixes (e.g., .pot to .potx, likewise .ppt to .pptx).
- Some source code restructured for easier understanding by
developers other than the author.
- The integrity of P3ICLI's lexical token table is only checked
if the command line debug level is > 5 (e.g., -D6).
- Lexical scanner correctly reset if devices (e.g. con:) and files
are mixed together on the command line. Longstanding bug (fixed).
- Added two new commands that permit users to specify relative
file paths within their P3ICLI scripts.
pics root {<folder> | '<'none'>'}
templates root {<folder> | '<'none'>'}
P3ICLI prepends the specified root <folder> to any relative file
path specified by an "insert slide", "open template", or
"pic <uint>" command. See the documentation for further details.
- The ignore command honors "pics root <folder>".
- A new "Relative Image and Template File Paths" help file topic
discusses the motivation behind use of relative file paths, as well
as the aforementioned interaction with the ignore command.
- P3ICLI may now be configured via an init file. Refer to the new
"Configuring P3ICLI via an Init File" help file topic for details.
- P3ICLI's setup (aka installation) program now uses Inno Setup
major version 6. Before describing what changed, be aware that
unless your old version of P3ICLI is uninstalled, you will _not_
encounter the new setup screen described below. Instead,
setup will install v3.3 using the same permissions (Admin rights,
quite likely) as were in effect during the last install. If you
have no desire to effect a non-Admin install, skip the rest of
this change topic.
P3ICLI v3.3 setup changes (assuming P3ICLI is uninstalled):
+ The previous, clumsy install sequence for non-Admin users has
been completely revamped.
+ Users now encounter two choices on the first setup screen:
1) Install for all users (recommended)
2) Install for me only
Choice #1 is the install sequence used by P3ICLI since its
inception. This choice requires Admin privileges and the
default install folder path is:
C:\Program Files (x86)\p3icli
During this Admin install, setup copies p3icli.exe to the
Windows root folder (traditionally located at C:\Windows).
All users on the target PC may run P3ICLI.
Choice #2 does _not_ require Admin privileges and copies
various files, including p3icli.exe, to a user's
AppData\Local\Programs folder. In the hypothetical case of
Windows user "Sally", the default install folder path is:
C:\Users\Sally\AppData\Local\Programs\p3icli
During the latter install, setup prompts the user to add the
above folder path to his/her PATH environment variable. Do
_not_ skip this step. If you do, Windows can neither locate
nor invoke P3ICLI. Following installation, only Sally may
run P3ICLI.
As an aside for curious readers... An update to the PATH
environment variable is not required during a P3ICLI Admin
installation (choice #1). Reason: the Windows root folder
is added to PATH when Windows is installed.
v3.2 released 04/19/2020
- Support for testing on Windows 7 & 8.1 dropped due to the author's
lack of interest in either operating system. It's assumed that
anyone originally stuck on Win8.1/Win7 migrated to Win10 as soon
as it became stable.
- Support for Office 2007 dropped due to lack of testing resources.
Even though P3ICLI may still work with Office 2007, no support
is offered for any problems that may be noted.
- Slide size command now supports an A4 argument, which maps to
PowerPoint's A4 dimensions (10.833 x 7.5 in), which differ from
the ISO standard's A4 dims (11.7 x 8.3 in). New syntax:
slide size a4
- Slide size command now allows users to specify an arbitary slide
size in points (72 pts/in). New syntax:
slide size <uint> , <uint>
The first <uint> value represents the width of the slide and the
second vaue represents the height. Note that the minimum value
for either dimension is arbitrarily set at 72 points, which
P3ICLI silently enforces.
- Added three new commands that enable removal of image files
specified via the pic<uint> <filename> command:
delete image files {on | off}
dif {on | off} # shortcut for previous command
ignore <filename>
These commands provide automatic cleanup when working with, say,
a statistics package where temporary image files are created "on
the fly" for consumption by a P3ICLI script (feature suggested
by Georgia Morgan).
- Added new command line switch -F, which forces image file
removal when P3ICLI error count at program exit is > 0.
- A new "Cleaning Up Temporary Images Files" topic in the
reference manual explains usage of the aforementioned new three
commands, as well as the -F switch.
- P3ICLI built using Visual Studio Community 2019, Windows XP cross
platform compatibility dropped.
- P3ICLI will not build "out of the box" with DevStudio 2019 (and
later) due to missing afx*.h include files. The build docu
describes how to install the missing files.
- Documentation with respect to Office versions 2003/2007 has been
mostly purged.
- Documentation and both of the example template files begin the
transition to post-Office 2003 filename suffixes (e.g., .potx
preferred to .pot, likewise .pptx versus .ppt).
- Updated documentation to reflect the steps to access the Office
2016/2019 Alt Text human interface.
v3.1 released 8/28/2017
- Support for Office 2003 dropped due to lack of testing resources.
Even though P3ICLI may still work with Office 2003, no support
is offered for any problems that may be noted.
- Added two new command synonyms for HALT:
{ quit | exit }
- Slide size command now supports a 16:9 argument, which enables
a wide slide aspect ratio for versions of PPT that predate Office
2013. Feature requested by Ashkar Ali. New syntax:
slide size { default | 4:3 | 16:9 }
- If an attempt is made to delete a nonexistent custom property,
no error is reported.
- If an attempt is made to change the value/type of an existing
custom property, the existing property is first deleted and then
added as specified. No error is reported.
- Bug fix: negative <int> custom properties from -1 to -999999 are
displayed correctly by PPT. Sadly, PPT displays any numerically
smaller value in imprecise floating point notation. This is not
a P3ICLI limitation, as it accepts negative <int> values as small
as -2147483648.
- When "copy src fmt" is on, release PPT CommandBar focus after a
paste slide operation.
- The default "Wait after transmitting an Asynchronous PPT command"
parameter introduced in v3.0 has been dropped from 220 msec to 80
msec. This change, which markedly increases P3ICLI throughput
when "copy src fmt" is "on", was made possible by the recent
discovery of the source of PPT's instability on a Win10 host.
See next two changes.
- Added an -Ex command line switch that's relevant on a Windows 10
host (or later) when "copy src fmt" is on. If specified, P3ICLI
sends an "End task" message to all instances of Windows Explorer
visible on the desktop prior to executing any scripting commands.
This switch is configurable via an environment variable.
- Added an -Ix command line switch that's relevant on a Windows 10
host (or later) when "copy src fmt" is on. If specified, this
switch causes P3ICLI to Ignore Windows Explorer (no action taken
to "End task" and no warning written in the log). This switch is
configurable via an environment variable.
- A new "PowerPoint Instability On Windows 10" topic in the
reference manual explains usage of -Ex and -Ix, as well as the
aforementioned environment vars.
v3.0 released 12/27/2016
- Support for Windows XP dropped due to lack of testing resources.
- Source code distribution now includes P3ICLI build documentation.
- Repaired several long-standing Developer Studio build issues.
- The insert slide "hardening" algorithm described in the v2.8
release notes (see below) has been implemented for versions of
PPT that predate Office 2010.
- Bug fix: suppose a P3ICLI script starts PPT, pastes at least one
slide (via an "insert slide" command), and does not kill that PPT
instance before it exits. In this scenario, the PPT instance
becomes an orphan process (only visible in task manager) when PPT
is manually closed by the user. This problem (now fixed) only
observed on a Win10 host with PowerPoint 2016 installed.
- Bug fix: when copying a source slide to effect an "insert slide"
command via Windows copy/paste, do not display a window when
briefly opening the source presentation. This change removes
instability when non-PPT application windows are opened during
P3ICLI script execution.
- When P3ICLI makes or kills a connection with PPT, the relevant
kill/connection logic is executed in a limited retry loop with
progressively longer delays inserted after each failed attempt.
This change (hopefully) future-proofs P3ICLI with respect to
ever-faster PC hosts.
- Added a new, optional command line switch that configures two
parameters relevant for program operation on fast PC hardware.
Syntax:
-W{a|x}:<msecs>
Semantics of -Wa:<msecs>
Wait <msecs> milliseconds after transmitting an Asynchronous
PPT command. If unspecified, the default is 220.
Semantics of -Wx:<msecs>
Wait <msecs> milliseconds at program eXit when the -T or -X
options are in effect. If unspecified, the default is 256.
The "wait" parameters are also configurable via environment
variables. The new Async Wait parameter addresses P3ICLI
instability issues when "copy src fmt on" is in effect and
"insert slide" commands are executed in an Office 2010 or later
environment. The instability is most prominent on a fast host
(i.e., SSD storage, 6th gen processor, lots of RAM) running
PowerPoint 2016.
- Added new "Fast PC Considerations" section to the reference
manual, which discusses (among other things) the aforementioned
environment vars and the rationale behind the new command line
options.
- P3ICLI (p3icli.exe) and its installation package are now signed
with a code signing certificate. The signing certificate format
(SHA256 digest) is recognized on Windows 7 and later hosts.
Note 1: The p3icli.exe signing certificate is flagged as
invalid on Windows XP, but P3ICLI is still functional.
Note 2: The signed 3.0 release was not tested on Vista, but
various documentation indicates that SHA256 is also flagged as
invalid on that host as well.
v2.9 released 8/31/2016
- New command added:
encoding {ansi | utf8}
Specifies the character set that may be used within a title or
caption <qstring>. To maintain compability with existing P3ICLI
scripts, the default for this command is "ansi". Example usage:
encoding utf8
open template c:\temp\demo.pot
cap1 "a caption with embedded, nifty unicode chars"
title 'a title with embedded, dazzling unicode chars'
Note that this feature should make P3ICLI much more functional
when preparing non-English presentations.
Refer to the reference manual's description of this command for
example caption and title strings that demonstrate use of actual
unicode characters. Feature motivated by questions from Georgia
Morgan and Dan Soltman.
- Added new "UTF-8 (aka Unicode) Encoding Hints" section to the
reference manual.
- Bug fix: do not use stat() to test the validity/accessibility of
filenames prefixed with these strings:
http:// https:// file://
Amusingly enough, PPT can process files specified with these
prefixes so long as the user has READ access. Problem noted
when examining logfiles generated by Chad Hoffman.
v2.8 released 3/31/2016
- Bug fix: restructured "insert slide" implementation when "copy src
fmt" is "on" such that PPT does not throw random exceptions. This
longstanding bug affects Office 2010 and later (only). Problem
reported by Stephen Quadro.
- Bug fix: following an "insert slide" command, reload slide state
before selecting the last slide in the active presentation. Problem
appears to be specific to Office 2013 in a stress test environment.
- Bug fix: while processing script errors, make internal state
recognize there is "NO_TMPLT" when the current presentation is devoid
of slides.
- Hardened the "insert slide" implementation such that slide paste
operations are repeated up to 4 times (w/o reporting an error)
whenever PPT throws an exception in response to a paste request.
With this change, P3ICLI gracefully recovers if some other app places
non-slide data on the clipboard at the same time that PPT executes a
paste command.
v2.7 (not released on SourceForge due to breakage of task scheduler
functionality).
v2.6 released 1/24/2016
- Bug fix: if filename suffix of "save as" command is .pptx, save in
that format. N/A for Office 2003. Reported by Georgia Morgan.
- New command added:
third party fix {on | off}
If "on", add special semantics for third party software that monitors
and interferes with some PowerPoint operations. Currently, the "on"
state ensures that all insert slide operations are carried out via a
clipboard copy and paste. Default for this command is "off".
v2.5 released 12/29/2015
- Bug fix: ignore UTF-8 (Unicode) Byte Order Mark (BOM) at beginning of
file input. Reported by Georgia Morgan.
- Bug fix: don't exit if the 8-bit input stream includes a character with
the high order bit set (i.e., non-ASCII input). Discovered while fixing
BOM bug.
- Emit warning (only once) if the 8-bit input stream contains a character
with the high order bit set. Note that a warning is not issued when a
BOM is encountered.
- New commands added:
custom property <qstring> = <qstring>
custom property <qstring> = <int>
custom property <qstring> = {yes | no}
The above add a Text, Number or Yes/No custom property to the currently
open presentation. Additionally, if this notation is used, a Date
custom property is added:
custom property <qstring> = "date: <valid_date>"
If this notation is used, the named property is deleted:
custom property <qstring> = ""
Examples of the latter two use cases:
custom property "Tax Day" = "date: 2016/04/15"
custom property "Tax Day" = "" # delete Tax Day
v2.4 released 6/10/2015
- Bug fix: when "copy src fmt" is on and "insert slide" is used to
insert a template slide into an instance of PPT that includes only a
single, default initialization slide (usually an "empty" slide),
don't emit a runtime PPT error. Reported by Mari Rossman while
invoking p3icli with the -T command line switch. Bug triggering
conditions isolated by Georgia Morgan. Note that due to the next
change, the conditions under which this scenario might occur are
now significantly reduced.
- Kill the blank initial slide added to a presentation via the -T
switch (requested by Georgia Morgan).
- Added a new "Script Optimization Insights" section to the
documentation, which describes computationally expensive
features/idioms.
v2.3 released 5/29/2015
- Added a -X option that forces P3ICLI to execute a "kill ppt discard"
command after all script(s) are processed. Useful if P3ICLI is run
on a server.
- The "Task Scheduler Caveats" section of the documentation was renamed
to "Task Scheduler Hints/Caveats" and its content significantly
expanded.
- Hardened P3ICLI cleanup procedures associated with the -T and -X
options.
- Tracing messages emitted by the -T switch are suppressed in the
absence of a log file.
- Bug fix: don't prematurely exit during program cleanup while
reporting a warning or information message.
v2.2 released 4/17/2015 (the Office 2013 workaround release)
- "save as" command augmented with this new choice:
save as pdf <filename>
The new alternative save file format was added because Office 2013
simply does not support saving presentations in html format.
- New command added:
slide size {4:3 | default}
Office 2013 defaults to a 16:9 slide size aspect ratio, rather than
the 4:3 ratio utilized by PPT for many, many years. The newer ratio
particularly impacts templates created pre-Office 2013, causing them to
expand to a 13.33in width when accessed via the P3ICLI "insert slide"
command. The "slide size" command allows a reversion to a 4:3 aspect
ratio under certain circumstances. Consult the "slide size" syntax
documentation for complete details.
- Show example Office 2013 ALT TEXT location in P3ICLI documentation.
- Do not trap negative integer arguments associated with the
"{pic|cap|title} move" commands. Instead, pass them as is to PPT. In
the case of rotated shapes, negative position arguments actually make
sense (e.g., a title shape rotated 270 degrees might exhibit a
negative "left" coordinate).
- Bug fix: if a user manages to manually select the last slide in a
presentation while P3ICLI is running and issues either variant of the
"kill ppt" command, ignore a PPT "slide index out of range" runtime
error when an attempt is made to delete the presentation's template
slide. This fix supports interactive testing.
- More documentation corrections and clarifications.
v2.1 released 2/24/2015
- New script commands added:
pic<uint> move <int>,<int>
pic<uint> size <uint>,<uint>
These 2 commands provide the capability of moving and resizing a
slide's picture shapes. Size and position parameters are scaled in
points (not inches or centimeters). Feature requested by Georgia
Morgan.
- For completeness sake, these commands were added as well:
cap<uint> move <int>,<int>
cap<uint> size <uint>,<uint>
title move <int>,<int>
title size <uint>,<uint>
Note that resizing a caption and/or title has its limitations. Refer
to the documentation for further details.
- New script command added:
list geometries [<qstring>]
Lists the dimensions and positions (in points) of the caption,
picture, or title shapes on the template and current slides. Slide
bounds (width and height) are listed in points as well. Data is
displayed on the console screen (stdout) unless a log file is
specified on the P3ICLI command line. In the latter case, the data
is dumped into the log file.
- Minor documentation clarifications and corrections.
- Fixed longstanding bug:
Start P3ICLI with no PPT instances running.
Issue a command that causes PPT to throw an exception (say,
opening a nonexistent template)
P3ICLI correctly diagnoses the problem path (no such file or
directory), and then exits.
v2.0 released 3/4/2014
- Corrected build env so that p3icli runs on Windows XP.
- Add examples to p3icli's -h output.
- Add an example task scheduler command line to p3icli's formal
documentation.
v1.9 released 2/27/2014 (not released on SourceForge due to WinXP breakage)
- Maximum number of captions allowed per slide bumped from 10 to 20.
- Maximum number of pics allowed per slide bumped from 10 to 20 (change
requested by Georgia Morgan).
- Added a '-T' command line switch. Syntax:
-T waitmsecs
Semantics: assumes P3ICLI is running under the Windows Task Scheduler,
which implies that before any script file(s) are processed:
1) a single instance of PowerPoint is started, and
2) that (new) PPT instance is allowed <waitmsecs> of time to cleanly
initialize
Note that after all script(s) are executed, P3ICLI implicitly
executes a "kill ppt discard" command to avoid stranding "orphan"
PowerPoint processes on the host computer. Therefore, all script(s)
run under the Task Scheduler must save all created presentations via
the "save as" command or they will be lost.
Example (waiting 15 seconds before a script is executed):
p3icli -l c:\temp\log.txt -T 15000 c:\temp\script.txt
Tested with the Win XP, Win7, and Win8 Task Schedulers. This feature
is not guaranteed to work on all hosts, since running an Office
product under the Task Scheduler is not supported by Microsoft
(google "microsoft article 257757" for details). Note that when
the -T switch is specified, program initialization is periodically
annotated in the log (with a timestamp) up to the point at which
script processing begins. After all scripts are processed,
annotations resume during P3ICLI's cleanup and shutdown phase. These
annotations serve as a debugging aid for further (future) P3ICLI mods
that might make Task Scheduler execution more robust. Task Scheduler
compatibility was requested by Joel Fenner.
- Bugfix: "remove comments" only removed a single slide comment when
used in conjunction with Office 2010.
- Application build env moved to Visual Studio 2012.
- P3ICLI verified to work on Windows 8 (tested with Office 2010 only).
v1.8, released 7/14/2012
- Support for Office XP dropped due to lack of testing resources.
Even though P3ICLI may still work with Office XP, no support is
offered for any problems that may be noted.
- bugfix: In an Office 2010 environment, P3ICLI aborted when no instance
of PPT was running and a script contained this sequence of commands:
copy source format on
insert slide <uint> from template <filename>
Put another way, P3ICLI aborted when copy source formatting was enabled
and template slides were selected via the "insert" command. The
"open template" command was not impacted.
P3I Users Note
==============
Due to this bug, P3I failed to create a new presentation when the
"Copy Source Formatting" feature was enabled and no running instance
of PPT 2010 existed.
- bugfix: In an Office 2010 environment, the "Copy Source Formatting"
feature didn't copy very many attributes from source template slides.
Missing attributes included (but were not limited to): gradient fills,
textured fills, pattern fills, and picture fills. This bug also
affected all P3I users who enabled the Copy Source Formatting feature.
Georgia Morgan discovered the (nifty) solution to this problem.
- Updated documentation to show how to add Alternative Text to an
Office 2010 slide shape (i.e., rectangle shape, caption, title).
- Corrected formatting errors produced in the -S output listing.
- Installation package released with latest version of Inno Setup,
which allows p3icli to install cleanly on Windows 7 (compatiblity
manager dialog box does not pop up).
v1.7, released 9/25/2009
- added a -S commandline switch, which dumps accepted syntax on stdout
and then forces a program exit.
- bugfix: when "copy src fmt on" is in effect, attempting to insert a
an out-of-range numeric slide template would cause P3ICLI to "leak"
an extra instance of PPT.
- P3ICLI slide "comment" functionality (which essentially died with the
release of Office XP) is now once again functional for Office XP,
Office 2003, and Office 2007. Commands that once again function
correctly are:
remove comments
insert slide <qstring> from template <filename>
- documentation updated to demonstrate how later versions of PPT
create slide comments.
- documentation updated to show PPT 2007 users how to access a shape's
Alternative Text (location changed in this PPT rls).
- P3ICLI is a mature product, now entering maintenance stage. Send
enhancement requests and/or bug reports to Clark Morgan, here:
spammers.are.scum@gmail.com
v1.6, released 9/10/2009
- Support for Office 2000 dropped (P3ICLI v1.6 is incompatible).
- new script command added:
copy src fmt {on | off}
or equivalently:
copy source format {on | off}
Specifies whether P3ICLI copies background slide formatting
information (e.g., design, color scheme, gradients, etc.) from the
"source" slide during the execution of an insert slide command.
Default is off.
Note 1: the state of this P3ICLI parameter is both order dependent
and persistent. Place this command before a targeted insert slide
command.
Note 2: user-defined textures cannot be copied for any version of
PPT released prior to Office 2007, since no PPT programmatic support
exists for this slide formatting feature.
v1.5, released 8/30/2009
- P3ICLI released using software license GPLv3.
- source files updated to work with latest release of cygwin (in
particular, lex.l compiles cleanly).
- bugfix: when inserting template slides into an open presentation
that has had slides deleted at some point in the past, PowerPoint
2003 reports slide index out of range errors.
v1.4, released 12/7/2005
- added "-V vrsnfile" command-line switch, which is useful for
programmatically obtaining p3icli's version number via CreateProcess()
(i.e., in the absence of shell redirection support).
- fixed a PPT OLE runtime error that occurred when back-to-back
"kill ppt discard" commands were executed on an underpowered PC.
- fixed an obscure parsing problem that occurred when "halt" was the
last line of a script and that line was not terminated with newline.
- when connecting to a running instance of PPT, P3ICLI forces
"normal view" and then activates the slide pane. These two
preconditions prevent numerous PPT runtime errors when various
scripting commands (e.g., title, pic<uint>, etc.) are executed.
- when connecting to a running instance of PPT, P3ICLI kills all running
slide shows (prevents lots of scripting commands from blowing sky high).
- new script command added:
remove comments
which removes all comments from the currently active slide.
v1.3, released 2/6/2005
- template slides may now be referenced by name (rather than solely by
their ordinal index). A "name" is attached to a slide by adding a
PowerPoint comment shape to the slide and including within that shape
text that appropriately identifies the template. Example name:
"4 pics, 1 title" . New syntax that supports this feature is:
insert slide <qstring> from template <filename>
Note 1: p3icli removes the referenced comment shape (and only that
comment shape) after successfully inserting a slide by name.
Note 2: the <qstring> and comment shape text are both trimmed of
leading and trailing white space prior to testing for string
equality. The string equality test is case _insensitive_ .
Example:
insert slide '4 pics, 1 title' from template c:\temp\xyz.pot
- p3icli now supports template caption shapes, which can be used to add
arbitrary text to a slide. Pedantically, any PowerPoint shape that
includes a "text frame" may be used as a caption shape. Informally,
any shape capable of displaying text is acceptable. Note that a
caption shape need not be physically located within the proximity of
a picture shape--P3ICLI assumes no shared association between these
shape types. Thus, it's possible for a template slide to consist of
nothing but captions. New syntax to support captions is as follows:
cap<uint> <qstring>
cap<uint> '<'cleaned'>'
Examples:
cap1 "March Sales Summary"
cap2 'Household Net Value'
- the "clean" command syntax supports captions. New syntax:
clean { slide | pics | caps }
The command "clean slide" implies that all unused shapes known to
p3icli (titles, captions, and pictures) will be removed.
- Documentation's "Script Hints" section updated to reflect an annoying
issue associated with duplicate shape labels. Suffice it to say, dup
shape labels leads to script behavior that's no fun to debug.
v1.2, released 2/2/2005
- fixed parser/scanner so that a syntax error is _not_ reported if the
last line of a syntactically valid script does not include a
terminating newline (reported by Georgia Morgan).
- fixed various cases where a syntax error was reported with an
off-by-one line number. Example:
$ cat | p3icli
title # forgot the qstring
^Z
p3icli: line 2: error: syntax error <-- incorrect line#
- minor documentation formatting errors corrected.
v1.1, released 9/20/2004
- setup installer now permits a non-administrator install on
WIN XP/2K.
- example used in documentation and on web site reworked
so that 6x4 snapshots are placed in proportionally similar
rectangular shapes ('cuz I was told that PowerPoint's
automatic scaling is not so good).
- new syntax provides script control over PPT's application
window:
start ppt [minimized]
v1.0, released 9/17/2004
- p3icli now accepts multiple script files as input. Ex:
p3icli script1.txt script2.txt script3.txt
- OLE errors decoded before reporting
- documented that "sleep" is actually useful on a Windows ME
host
- help is now html-based
- p3icli now hosted on SourceForge
v0.9, released 9/2/2004
- p3icli now includes an icon (useful for setup and desktop shortcut).
- p3icli now distributed with a self-extracting setup program.
- a couple of documentation errors fixed.
v0.8, released 8/30/2004
- new script commands:
insert slide <uint> from template <filename>
kill ppt {save | discard}
pic<uint> '<'cleaned'>'
save as {html | presentation} <filename>
- if a template rectangle shape includes a text rotation angle != 0.00
degrees, that rotation is applied to subsequently inserted
pictures/graphics files (feature not supported by Office 2000).
- p3icli now tests existence of user-specified template when processing
"open template" command.
- internal deletion of unused dup template no longer generates error
message if user has externally closed PPT.
- lexical analysis simplified.
v0.7, released 8/23/2004
- Rudimentary functionality completed.