Re: Powerpoint 255 character limit
Re: Powerpoint 255 character limit
- Subject: Re: Powerpoint 255 character limit
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 23:07:25 -0700
- Thread-topic: Powerpoint 255 character limit
On 5/5/06 8:56 AM, "Brad Anderson" <email@hidden> wrote:
> I have a handler script that collects the text content
> from each powerpoint slide and assembles it into a
> list. The problem is that that if any text frame of
> any slide in power point has more than 256 characters,
> Powerpoint crashes
I've been testing this in a reproducible (100%) short script. Actually when
the text is between 256 and 269 characters, it returns garbage Unicode to
fill up to 270th character, then 271 adds more garbage up to 282. When
there's 272 or more characters, PowerPoint crashes.
The bug is only in AppleScript, not in the equivalent macro for VBA. So 'do
Visual Basic' ought to work OK, but the trouble is it won't return a real
result to the script, so you can't get your full text.. You'd have to redo
the entire script as a VBA macro or use tricks to write the cumulative
result to a text file and have AppleScript read the text file.
I've reported the bug.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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