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Change background of VSSX File for Python

Change background of Microsoft Visio VSSX files in browser without requiring Visio application or Office Automation.

How to Change background of VSSX File Using Python

In order to change background of VSSX file, we’ll use

Aspose.Diagram for Python

API which is a feature-rich, powerful and easy to use conversion API for Python platform. You can download its latest version directly from

Pypi

Steps to Change background of VSSX via Python

Aspose.Diagram makes it easy for the developers to change background of VSSX file with just few lines of code.

  1. Load VSSX file with an instance of Diagram class
  2. Add a new page to diagram as background page
  3. Insert an image to the background page
  4. Set background page to the first page of diagram
  5. 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 VSSX

        diagram = new Diagram(dataDir+"Drawing1.vssx");
        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.

    VSSX What is VSSX File Format?

    Files with .VSSX extension are drawing stencils created with Microsoft Visio 2013 and above. The VSSX file format can be opened with Visio 2013 and above. Visio files are known for representation of a variety of drawing elements such as collection of shapes, connectors, flowcharts, network layout, UML diagrams, software diagrams, database models, objects mapping and other similar information. Microsoft Visio also provides the capability to convert Visio files to different file formats such as PNG, BMP, PDF and others. It is available for both Windows and Mac OS.

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    Other Supported Change Background of Formats

    Using Python, One can also change background of many other file formats including.

    VDX (Microsoft Visio Drawing Format)
    VSD (Microsoft Visio Drawings)
    VSDM (Microsoft Visio Drawing Format)
    VSDX (Microsoft Visio Format)
    VSS (Stencil Files)
    VSSM (Microsoft Visio Stencil files)
    VST (Vector Image Files)
    VSTM (Microsoft Visio Template Files)
    VSTX (Microsoft Visio Drawing Template)
    VSX (Stencils)
    VTX (Microsoft Visio Drawing Template)