Category Archives: Drawing

ImageMagick – Update and add IrfanView link

Posted on 19/10/2008 by dougaj4

The picture indexing spreadsheet presented in the previous post has been updated: Comments can now be added adjacent to the file names, and these will be copied along with the Exif data The routine to copy the exif data to … Continue reading →

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ImageMagick and Excel

Posted on 17/10/2008 by dougaj4

Back from my holidays, with a hard disk full of holiday snaps, and looking for a program to extract the image data saved on the camera, and add comments.  Not liking the offerings provided with the cameras, or any of … Continue reading →

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Drawing in Excel 6 – getting shape properties

Posted on 17/09/2008 by dougaj4

Previous post One of the less than useful new “features” of Excel 2007 is that its macro recorder no longer records operations on shapes, which removes the easiest way to discover the exact names of shape properties, and how to manipulate … Continue reading →

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Drawing in Excel 5 – Shape List

Posted on 26/07/2008 by dougaj4

Previous Post For some reason best known to Microsoft, the Excel documentation does not include a graphic list of shapes with an example of each shape, and the text list they do provide is incomplete.  The file shapelist.zip rectifies that … Continue reading →

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Newton’s Cradle

Posted on 20/07/2008 by dougaj4

Previous animation post I have added a Newton’s Cradle animation to the animation file posted previously: Animation.zip The animation finds the correct period for the input string length and starting angle, and displays the movement of the balls in real … Continue reading →

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