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Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

 

    Image Rotation Tool

     

    Gary Neitzke decided to close a small functionality hole in OneNote.  It's easy to rotate ink or drawings you create, but images cannot be rotated.  Enter Gary's Image Rotation Powertoy.  This one is great for a couple of reasons.

     

    First, it lets you rotate images :-)  .  "Images," in OneNote terms, are a type of data on a page - the easiest way to create an image is to copy a picture to a clipboard, then paste it into OneNote.  (Text, Audio files, etc.. are treated as different data types.)  Click the Image Tools toolbar icon and you can rotate the image 90 degrees to the right or left, or flip it vertically or horizontally. 

     

    The second reason this is outstanding is that Gary decided to implement a floating "toolbar" like-object which is opened when you click the toolbar icon.  While this makes perfect sense from a UI point of view, technically, this is a great new technique for powertoys for OneNote.  You are no longer limited to just the click event of the toolbar button!  More on how to do this soon.

     

    Here it is: http://johnguin.members.winisp.net/Shared%20Documents/image_tools.zip

     

    Here it is in action.  Before rotating an image:

     

     

    And after:

     

    Be careful with this one if you depend on text recognition in images for searching.  Obviously, you will get erratic results if you rotate images with text and make the text upside down before letting OneNote index it…

     

    Questions, comments, concerns and criticism always welcome,

    John Guin

     

Published Friday, December 14, 2007 5:40 PM by JohnGuin
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Friday, December 14, 2007 11:14 PM by MSDN Blog Postings » Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

# How to create a "floating" toolbar in OneNote

Gary Neitzke took a few minutes to create a draft of how to create a "floating toolbar" with your addins

Thursday, December 20, 2007 10:45 AM by OneNote Testing

# How to create a "floating" toolbar in OneNote

Gary Neitzke took a few minutes to create a draft of how to create a "floating toolbar" with

Thursday, December 20, 2007 11:45 AM by Noticias externas

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

In XP Pro under VM's Fusion on a MacBook Pro .net 2.0 and security and SP1 all installed.

I see the rotator icon on the toolbar. Clipping an image with OneNote and pasting it onto a page; clicking the icon it just grays out and I get no floating toolbar nor other rotation control.

I've reinstalled .net and repaired the tool several times.

Thursday, December 20, 2007 7:39 PM by Joe O'Laughlin

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

Sorry for the problems, Joe.

The basic troubleshooting steps are where I recommend starting.

1. Uninstall, reboot Windows to make sure OneNote is not running in the background.

2. Check for windows updates (the .net framework may still need updating).

3. Run setup again (and be sure to run setup.exe - not the MSI)

a.  right click the file and select "run as admin"

b.  during setup, ensure the box for "install for all users" is checked

4. Then start OneNote.

Thursday, December 20, 2007 9:58 PM by JohnGuin

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

Hi John, thanks for the custom sequence.

I get different windows on right click of the .exe .

I do have a runAs.jpg from screen shots I could send if you wanted to see them. Maybe resulting from running this under Fusion?

No success yet - same kind of gray out.

Tuesday, December 25, 2007 11:50 PM by Joe O'Laughlin

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

Hello Joe,

Sure - can you send me the image?  And what do you mean "Running under Fusion?"  

John

Wednesday, December 26, 2007 10:05 AM by JohnGuin

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

Oh, you can mail the images to johnguin.  Use the hotmail ending (boy, I hate spam bots which harvest email addresses).

John

Wednesday, December 26, 2007 10:28 PM by John Guin

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

Fusion is VMWare for the Mac.  It allows you to run windows concurrently with OS/X giving you the feeling of actually running Windows apps inside OS/X - which, incidently is probably the best OS I've ever used... if money were no issue, I would own a MacBook with VMWare Fusion on it - the ease of use (efficiency) of Mac and the compaitibilty of Windows... fused together (pun shamefully intended)

Saturday, December 29, 2007 12:09 PM by Dave-a-roonie

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

This tool is AMAZING!! Thanks for creating it. I put notes in from pdf files and some pages are viewed better in a landscape format and I could never rotate the individual pages! Installation was a breeze and I just reopened OneNote and the icon was there. Thanks again!

Sunday, January 13, 2008 6:40 PM by Ashley

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

I have the same problem as Joe above: the 'image tools' button is 'grayed' out.

I'm running OneNote 07 on Windows XP Tablet Edition.

I've tried the exact sequence that John suggested, didn't help.

Any ideas???

Thanks!

-Spartacus

Saturday, January 26, 2008 1:24 AM by Spartacus

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

Can you double check to see if the toolbar is showing up "below" the OneNote window?

John

Saturday, January 26, 2008 2:15 AM by JohnGuin

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

This tool is SO nice for me!  I scan a lot of materials into OneNote, like handouts at meetings, and I had a fair collection of charts that were originally printed in landscape mode.  There I am, with head cocked over to one side, trying to read the proposed schedule!  PRESTO!  Problem gone!

It does seem very important to hunt underneath the OneNote window for dialog boxes.  Once I figured that out, PowerToys have installed and worked quite well for me.

Thursday, February 07, 2008 10:29 AM by PeteJacobsen

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

The toolbar button does not appear on my machine for anyone but the admin user who installed it.

Is there an issue with running this as a non-admin, or as a user other than the one who installed it?  I am not presented with any option to "install for all users" as you suggest.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008 4:03 PM by Ben

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

Hmm - there should be a screen during setup which asks where you want to install the addin (the default is c:\program files\...) and a radio button to select to install for all users or just the current user.  If you run setup for yourself, does the addin work?  The only difference between the two is whether the registry keys get created for all users or just the current user.

John

Tuesday, February 12, 2008 10:57 PM by JohnGuin

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

I am prompted for the installation folder (C:\Program Files\Microsoft\OneNote ImageTools\), but that is all.  Is there a commandline switch I can use to specify all users?

Wednesday, February 13, 2008 8:44 AM by Ben

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

Let me see what I can find out about the setup files Visual Studio builds.  Sorry for the problems,

John

Wednesday, February 13, 2008 5:39 PM by JohnGuin

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

Thanks.  The tool works great for the user it installs for!  It corrects a crucial oversight by Microsoft, IMHO.

Thursday, February 14, 2008 8:40 AM by Ben

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

Is there a way to get free rotation of any angle (besides just the standard 45, 90, 180, etc.?  I teach math and would like to be able to rotate an image of a protractor when demonstrating how to draw a pie chart by hand.

Elizabeth

Saturday, February 16, 2008 1:03 PM by Elizabeth Hamman

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

Update:  I tried using the ALLUSERS=1 switch as follows, but it didn't help.

MSIEXEC.EXE /i "OneNote ImageTools.msi" ALLUSERS=1

Monday, February 25, 2008 2:32 PM by Ben

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

I just wanted to thank you for making this. It's awesome!

Monday, February 25, 2008 7:48 PM by Chris

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

Same thing here on Vista.  I see a button named Rotate on the drawing toolbar but all options are grayed out.  Interestingly, I disabled all add-ons and shut down OneNote and restarted it as part of my troubleshooting and the button still showed up.  Shouldn't it disappear if add-ons are disabled??

Thanks

Saturday, March 01, 2008 7:24 AM by David

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

OK, I see that rotate is part of OneNote itself and NOT the add-on.  I'm assuming that is what the earlier poster was experiencing as well.  I think it is only for drawings done within OneNote, which is why it is gray when we try to select something - it's only meant for OneNote drawing objects.

So the real question is, why can't I find the toolbar that the add-on is supposed to add?

Saturday, March 01, 2008 7:27 AM by David

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

OK, this is the fix.  Use the little toolbar button that probably shows up on the far right and select "display toolbars on two rows" or something to that effect.  Suddenly the image tools icon appears (previously with all icons it would not appear even though there was a checkbox next to it).

I wish I could give better instructions but the toolbar command GUI is IMHO screwy and now the menu that was there disappeared after setting it to two levels.  And no such commands for one level or two levels are found under the view menu.

Saturday, March 01, 2008 7:37 AM by David

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

BTW, now that I have it working, thank you!

Sunday, March 02, 2008 2:12 AM by David

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

Just found this today. This allows me to EASILY use the lecture slides that the occasional odd professor puts in PDF format landscape format, on my tablet. This saves TONS of time changing things on all sorts of levels to make things useful for notes in class. THANKS!!!

Monday, March 03, 2008 8:02 PM by SLC_Fan

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

Thank you thank you!  I was taking pictures using onenote mobile on my smartphone, but the photos often synced in to desktop onenote in the wrong orientation.  There was no easy way to fix the problem.  Now there is.

Sunday, March 23, 2008 5:43 PM by Lawson

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

Was there ever any solution to the installlation problems detailed above.  I followed all the instructions, and the Image Tools toobar does not appear anywhere. Not sure where to go with this.  Important feature as most of the PDFs I import in for note taking are in landscape.

Friday, April 25, 2008 2:41 PM by Derek

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

The last thing to check is to ensure the .net programmability support is installed.  Grab your install CD and open control panel.  Do an Add/Remove for Office (or just OneNote) and ensure the (optional) .net programmability support is installed under the OneNote tree.

Let me know if that doesn't help,

John

Friday, April 25, 2008 2:56 PM by JohnGuin

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

I can't download the tool, are you out of bandwidth? i really need it :(

Sunday, May 11, 2008 1:00 AM by mike

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

The server is being upgraded this weekend (5/11/08).  Sorry for the problems.  It should be back up soon.

John

Sunday, May 11, 2008 1:56 PM by JohnGuin

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

thank you! at first i thought the server was no longer maintained, and i got here too late.

Monday, May 12, 2008 10:10 PM by mike

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

Hello John,

This is the second time that I have tried to use this tool but it has been impossible for me

My situation is the same commented by Spartacus (Jan. 26), I tried what David said (Mar.01) but it keeps appearing grey out and I don't able the "image tools" either.

Please, help!

Tuesday, May 13, 2008 2:22 PM by Ms. Fanny

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

Does OneNote have the .net Programmability support installed?  Grab your install CD and open control panel.  Do an Add/Remove for Office (or just OneNote) and ensure the (optional) .net programmability support is installed under the OneNote tree.  It does not install by default, and most of the time this is the cause of the problem.

Sorry for the pain,

John

Tuesday, May 13, 2008 2:30 PM by JohnGuin

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

Hello John Guin,

Few minutes ago, I installed the license of ON2007 and now, image tools came up successfully.

Thanks for your support and patience.

Tuesday, May 20, 2008 1:42 PM by Ms. Fanny

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

I do not have the CD, but I installed this tool and it worked perfectly - it solved my problem of not being able to insert upright slides from Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 4:19 PM by Kevin

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

Hi, thanks loads for this, bit of trouble to start with but installed the .net support off disc and now working fine. Nice one, one note is now perfect.

Monday, July 14, 2008 7:13 PM by Oliver

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

Thanks for building this tool. I've installed it but can't seem to get it to work. It shows up on my toolbar. I click it... I get the hour glass.. and then nothing. The image tool icon is then greyed out and I can't click it.

any ideas? thanks

Adam

Sunday, August 10, 2008 10:43 AM by Adam

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

Did you try this yet?

Does OneNote have the .net Programmability support installed?  Grab your install CD and open control panel.  Do an Add/Remove for Office (or just OneNote) and ensure the (optional) .net programmability support is installed under the OneNote tree.  It does not install by default, and most of the time this is the cause of the problem.

John

Monday, August 11, 2008 5:02 PM by JohnGuin

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

what about image cropping are you planning on adding that?

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 12:05 PM by gil

# Code for image rotator and some upcoming work for test

I got a request a few days ago to see about posting the code for the image rotator powertoy. Gary agreed

Thursday, August 14, 2008 11:03 AM by OneNote Testing

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

And here is the link to the code:  http://blogs.msdn.com/johnguin/archive/2008/08/14/code-for-image-rotator-and-some-upcoming-work-for-test.aspx (down at the bottom of the article).

John

Thursday, August 14, 2008 11:14 AM by JohnGuin

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

Second that for Image Cropping... any plans?

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 12:42 PM by Montevale

# How to work around a bug with the image rotator and search indexing

One of my hobbies which I never have time for is playing around with my old TRS-80 Color Computer . For

Monday, August 25, 2008 11:07 AM by OneNote Testing

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

If anyone is still having trouble installing (as I did) note that you -do- need to have .NET support installed for OneNote (which is not installed by default). You'll need your OneNote CD to install it. Without that, it won't work.

Sunday, August 31, 2008 10:58 AM by James

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

Is there a workaround for the installation problem Ben identified?  I'm having the same issue -- when I install I'm not given an option to install for all users, and the image tools only show up when I'm logged in as the administrator that installed it...  It works great if I'm admin.

Thanks

Wednesday, September 17, 2008 2:45 PM by Will

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

took a while to figure out how to get it going...but it's great now!!! thanks so much!!!

Thursday, September 18, 2008 4:18 PM by grad student

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

I just reinstalled windows xp, Office 2003 and OneNote 2007. I then installed the image rotator tool. In short the tool does not work.  I get the icon at the top of the page, but when I click on it, it is greyed out.  

I followed your advice about reintalling the tool.  I have also installed .net and I still can't get the tool to work.  

I had the tool working before I had to reinstall everything on my computer. However, it does not work now...please help!

My email addres is:  rel56@earthlink.net

Hope to hear from you soon.

Richard

Saturday, September 20, 2008 6:47 PM by Richard Lester

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

Hello Richard,

When you mention you installed ".net," do you mean the .net programmability support for OneNote or the .net framework?

Both are needed.

If they are both installed, I recommend uninstall the image rotator, rebooting, installing the image rotator and trying again.  Also, check to see if the toolbar pops up "below" the OneNote window.  It may be getting hidden there.

Hope this helps,

John

Monday, September 22, 2008 10:21 AM by JohnGuin

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

I didn’t see any license information when I installed this as a test, can this be used in a corporate environment?

James

Monday, September 22, 2008 11:01 AM by James

# re: Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007

Yes.  This addin can be used anywhere - thanks for using OneNote!

John

Monday, September 22, 2008 11:14 AM by JohnGuin

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