How do I a replacement of placeholders with images?

Hello, everyone. I am working on a project with MATLAB and I'm stuck because I can't insert images in place of placeholders. Could you please help me? I saw that I have to use "TemplateHole" from mlreportgen.dom.* library. Is there a way to make the replacement??

Answer 1

[Hitesh]

Hi Giovanni,

I am assuming that you are trying to insert image in place of image placeholder in PowerPoint presentation. Kindly follow these steps to accomplish this:

• Presentation Creation: You need to initialize a new PowerPoint presentation.
• Slide Addition: After that add a slide with a "Title and Picture" layout.
• Placeholder Replacement: Replace the title placeholder with the text "Airplane" and the picture placeholder with a specified image.
• Finalization: Finally, close the presentation and open it for review.

import mlreportgen.ppt.*

% Create a new PowerPoint presentation
ppt = Presentation("myPicturePlaceholderPresentation.pptx");
open(ppt);

% Add a slide with a title and picture layout
slide = add(ppt, "Title and Picture");

% Find and replace the title placeholder with the text "Airplane"
titlePlaceholderObj = find(slide, "Title");
replace(titlePlaceholderObj, "Airplane");

% Find and replace the picture placeholder with the specified image
picturePlaceholderObj = find(slide, "Picture");
replace(picturePlaceholderObj, Picture("Aeroplane.png"));

% Close the presentation and open it for viewing
close(ppt);
rptview(ppt);

For more information regarding "mlreportgen.ppt.PicturePlaceholder" class, kindly refer to the below MATLAB documentation:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/rptgen/ug/mlreportgen.ppt.pictureplaceholder.replace.html

If you want to insert the image in image placeholder for Word Document, kindly refer to the below MATLAB documentation for "mlreportgen.dom.EmbeddedObject Class":

https://www.mathworks.com/help/rptgen/ug/mlreportgen.dom.embeddedobject-class.html