Working with Shapes
Shapes in Aspose.Words
This topic discusses how to work programmatically with shapes using Aspose.Words. The shapes in Aspose.Words represent an object in the drawing layer, such as an AutoShape, textbox, freeform, OLE object, ActiveX control, or picture. A Word document can contain one or more different shapes. Shapes of the document are represented by the Shape class.
Insert Shape Using Document Builder
Set Aspect Ratio Locked
Set Shape Layout In Cell
Add Corners Snipped
Get Actual Shape Bounds Points
Specify Vertical Anchor
Detect SmartArt Shape
Horizontal Rule Format
Aspose.Words API provides Shape.HorizontalRuleFormat property to access the properties of the horizontal rule shape. The HorizontalRuleFormat class exposes basic properties like Height, Color, NoShade etc. for the formatting of a horizontal rule. The following code example demonstrates how to set HorizontalRuleFormat.
Insert OLE Object as an Icon
Aspose.Words API provides Shape.InsertOleObjectAsIcon function to insert an embedded or linked OLE object as an icon into the document. This function allows specifying the icon file and the caption. The OLE object type shall be detected using the file extension. The following code example demonstrates how to set insert OLE object as an Icon into the document.