Any ideas on how to get that image into Word 2011 for OSX and insert it under the cursor?Įdit: updated the link to the project since migrating to github. This script works, and will show the image file that I expect. Note that in the above, args.webAddr and args.filename are passed to the script using the argparse library. Print 'Error: The server could not fulfill the request.' # HTTP error code, see section 10 of RFC 2616 for details You will get what you see in Word for windows ) Hope it helps. When u have chosen Chinese from the drop down menu as stated above, go to Word and choose Format>Asian Layout>Phonetic Guide. # a tuple containing error code and text error messageĮlif hasattr(e, 'code'): # HTTP error case You need to have Chinese (simplified or traditional) input already added into your Mac before you get to see the options available for Chinese. If hasattr(e, 'reason'): # URL error case Result = StringIO(urlopen(args.webAddr + args.filename).read()) # Send request to the server and receive response, with error handling! It’s probably best to do this before creating your document, then you’ll get a better idea of how the layout will look.

The image is read in as a PIL object and I can show it using img.show() just fine, but I am not sure what filetype this is or how to get VBA to accept it. Open Word and select the Page Layout tab, then click on the icon in the corner of Page Setup to launch the Page Setup dialog. The important bits of the script are below. UPDATE: I have created a Python script for getting the image file from a URL, but I still do not know how to get this image from the Python script into VBA, and from there into the Word document at the location of the cursor. Does anybody know of a way within VBA for Office 2011 to make this work, or barring that a workaround? I am trying to avoid writing the image file to the disk if possible. The other important thing to note is that Office 2016 for Mac only works with OS X 10.10 Yosemite or higher it does not work with OS X 10.9 Mavericks or lower so make sure you are definitely running OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.11 El Capitan, macOS Sierra 10.12 or macOS 10.13 High Sierra before proceeding. LinkToFile:=False, SaveWithDocument:=TrueĪfter doing some research, it looks like MS may have disabled this functionality in OSX as a 'security risk'. The current attempt is as follows, and works in Windows but crashes Word in OSX: FileName:=File_Name, _ Now I have to insert an image in my Word file from a URL that is built using the return of my external script. I have overcome issues with VBA for OSX Word 2011 not allowing you to send POSTs to a server and have figured out how to return a string result from an external script. I am working on porting a project in Windows over to OSX.

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