Batch Converter (PNG to VSS)

[Dmitry]

Hi,
I'm looking for batch conversion utility to create single vss file from many graphics files (e.g png). Has anyone can recommend such software?
Thanx.

[Dmitry]

Haven't found anything, so ... have done it - if anyone is interested, download the attached file and feel free to use.
You'll be able:
- convert hundreds of graphics files into single Visio stencil file;
- create connection points (as many as you want).
Unzip & install, note it requires Visio 2003 or 2007 and NET Framework 3.5.

[Dmitry]

After reading this: Create Clean & Tidy Visio Shapes Using Images With Transparent Backgrounds, I've made improved version, now with automatic cropping and making transparent backgrounds. Still the same requirements.

[Visio Guy]

Wow, thanks Dmitry, very impressive!

[Dmitry]

Even better one, with improvements: more connection points, better transparency etc...

[y0gurt]

OK Dmitry, This Rocks! Thanks!

[nikos_ps]

Dimitri you rock!!!!!!

thanks very much for the app... 

[JuneTheSecond]

Cool and wonderful!
I was wasting time with various tools to remove background!
Now it is almost automatic!
Thank you, Dimitri!

[ged325]

Any chance of this being done the other way as well?  Need to go from VSS to PNG.

[Paul Herber]

This can be done quite easily in VBA.

Code

with empty page
for each shape in stencil {
  drop shape on page
  select all
  save as <shape.name>.png
  delete shape
}

[ged325]

After some research I ended up using the interop in .Net, thanks for the reply.

[sunflower]

Hi,

Is there any means by which we can convert the imgaes to vdx file ?? i.e an *.jpg file to *.vdx file where we can have all the processes that are there in image mapped to vdx.

[aledlund]

once your stencil has been made (.vss), save as .VSX (which is the xml version of a stencil).
al

[markem]

Hey! I hope you read this. I have been using your PNG2VSS program for a while. It is utterly fantastic. My problem is - I have thousands of files to load in to VSS files. So your program helps - but I need to be able to run it at the command level. I.E.: c:>png2vss <Directory to convert>.

Is this possible? Hopefully you will see and respond to this post.  Thanks if you do in advance!

By the way - if you have the source code still and do not want to work on this - let me have the source code and I'll work on it myself and give you back the code. :-)

[Dmitry]

What you're asking for is already implemented. Look into manual, section 3.8.
The latest version is 5.4:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tR34z64zveZLo_nPxhL9wbdLJSiPPcmO/view?usp=sharing