Create VSTM Documents via Python
Native and high performance VSTM (Portable Document Format) creation programmatically using Python library.
Aspose.Diagram for Python
Overview
Generating VSTM file dynamically within running application is easy. In order to create VSTM documents from scratch without requiring MS Office, 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
How to Create VSTM via Python
It is easy for the developers to create, load, modify and convert VSTM (Portable Document Format) within running different reporting applications for data processing in just a few lines of code.
- Include the namespace in your class file
- Create Diagram class instance.
- Access the first page of the diagram.
- Add text in the page.
- Use save method to save the diagram as VSTM file.
System Requirements
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.
- Install Java and add it to PATH environment variable, for example:
PATH=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_131;. - Install Aspose.Diagram for Python from pypi, use command as:
$ pip install aspose-diagram.
Create Html Python Conversion Source Code
import jpype
import asposediagram
jpype.startJVM()
from asposediagram.api import *
// Create Diagram class instance.
diagram = new Diagram();
// Access the first page of the diagram.
page = diagram.getPages().get(0);
// Add Text shape.
shape = page.addText(1, 1, 1, 1, "Test text", "Calibri", "#a5a5a5", 0.25);
// Save the Diagram as .vstm file.
diagram.save("out.vstm",SaveFileFormat.VSTM);
VSTM What is VSTM File Format?
Files with VSTM extension are template files created with Microsoft Visio that support macros. Unlike VSDX files, files created from VSTM templates can run macros that are developed in Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) code. A template file can be created in order to provide basic settings of the document that can be utilized to generate further documents with these settings. Visio files are used to create drawings that contain visual objects, flow charts, UML diagram, information flow, organizational charts, software diagrams, network layout, database models, objects mapping and other similar information. Files generated using Visio can also be exported to different file formats such as PNG, BMP, PDF and others.
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