A Glass case of Thoughts

As I work, I keep noting about my work here. Earlier, I wrote about inserting images in a word document at a bookmark in this post. Later, arose the need for having text wrapping around an image if it is small for document width. Solution is to use frames to achieve it and here is how I did it.

CImage class definition:

    public class CImage
    {
        public string Path
        {
            get;
            set;
        }

        public decimal Id
        {
            get;
            set;
        }

        public string Title
        {
            get;
            set;
        }

        public Image Bitmap
        {
            get;
            set;
        }

        public bool BusyLoading
        {
            get;
            set;
        }

        public void GetImage()
        {
            try
            {
                BusyLoading = true;
                WebRequest req = WebRequest.Create(Path);
                WebResponse response = req.GetResponse();
                Stream stream = response.GetResponseStream();

                Bitmap = Image.FromStream(stream);
                
                stream.Close();
            }
            catch
            {
                Bitmap = null;
            }
            finally
            {
                BusyLoading = false;
            }
        }

 
        public override bool Equals(object obj)
        {
            CImage objToCompare = obj as CImage;
            if (objToCompare == null)
                return false;
            return this.Id.Equals(objToCompare.Id);
        }
    }

Adding frame at end of the document (can be any bookmark for that matter)

Frame wrdFrame = wrdDocument.Frames.Add(wrdDocument.Bookmarks.get_Item(ref oEndOfDoc).Range);

WHERE
wrdDocument
- Active word document object of type : Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Document

Setting frame properties for textwrap and autosize

wrdFrame.TextWrap = true;
wrdFrame.VerticalDistanceFromText = 7;
wrdFrame.HorizontalDistanceFromText = 10;
wrdFrame.HeightRule = WdFrameSizeRule.wdFrameAuto;
wrdFrame.WidthRule = WdFrameSizeRule.wdFrameAuto;

Inserting image in frame

Clipboard.SetDataObject(objImage.Bitmap);
wrdFrame.Range.Paste();

WHERE
objImage
- Object of type CImage

And you are done !

Important information

You need to add a COM reference to your favorite word object library which should in turn add

• Microsoft.Office.Core
• VBIDE
• Word
   

  If you do not see these added, make sure you have PIAs for office version installed on your machine.
  Get Office 2007 PIAs here
  Get Office 2003 PIAs here

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