Change background of VSS File for Python
Change background of Microsoft Visio VSS files in browser without requiring Visio application or Office Automation.
Aspose.Diagram for Python
Overview
How to Change background of VSS File Using Python
In order to change background of VSS file, we’ll use
API which is a feature-rich, powerful and easy to use conversion API for Python platform. You can download its latest version directly from
Steps to Change background of VSS via Python
Aspose.Diagram makes it easy for the developers to change background of VSS file with just few lines of code.
- Load VSS file with an instance of Diagram class
- Add a new page to diagram as background page
- Insert an image to the background page
- Set background page to the first page of diagram
- Call the Diagram.Save method
System Requirements
Aspose.Diagram for Python is supported on all major operating systems. Just make sure that you have the following prerequisites.
Aspose.Diagram for Python is platform-independent API and can be used on any platform (Windows, Linux and MacOS), just make sure that system have Java 1.8 or higher, Python 3.5 or higher.
Python code to change background of VSS
diagram = new Diagram(dataDir+"Drawing1.vss");
SrcPage = diagram.getPages().get(0)
backgroundPage = Page();
backgroundPage.setName("Back page");
id = newDiagram.getPages().add(backgroundPage);
backgroundPage.setID ( id);
backgroundPage.setBackground( BOOL.TRUE);
backgroundPage.addShape(1, 1, 1, 1, java.io.FileInputStream("image.png"));
SrcPage.setBackPage(backgroundPage);
About Aspose.Diagram for .NET API
Aspose.Diagram is a Microsoft Visio document format manipulation API. One can easily load, create, modify, manipulate including daigram elements and convert Visio diagrams to other formats such as PDF, XPS, JPEG, PNG, BMP, TIFF, SVG, EMF and more. It is a standalone API and does not require Microsoft Visio or any other software to be installed.VSS What is VSS File Format?
VSS are stencil files created with Microsoft Visio 2007 and earlier. A relatively new file format is .VSSX that was introduced with Microsoft Visio 2013. Stencil files provide drawing objects that can be included in a .VSD Visio drawing. Microsoft Visio itself is known for creating drawing elements such as collection of shapes, connectors, flowcharts, network layout, UML diagrams, software diagrams, database models, objects mapping and other similar information. It also has rich conversion features of Visio documents to other file formats such as PNG, BMP, PDF and others. Visio is available for both Windows and Mac OS.
Read MoreOther Supported Change Background of Formats
Using Python, One can also change background of many other file formats including.