OneNote Testing

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

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.

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.

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

John

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!

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.

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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!!!

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.

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

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 at first i thought the server was no longer maintained, and i got here too late.

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.

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

what about image cropping are you planning on adding that?

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

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

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

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

James

Thanks for the add-in.  I have a few suggestions that would make it better in my opinion:

1. Make the toolbar tockable

2. Allow the toolbar to be made visible by selecting it under View >> Toolbars or by right-clicking the toolbar and selecting the add-in's menu.

3. When it is visible, don't show it in the taskbar!

4. Make it faster.

Thanks again.

I had the problem of the tool only being visible in the administrator account. I solved this in Windows XP by:

- uninstalling the rotation tool

- right click rotation tool setup.exe and select 'run as'

- instal using the working user account (but untick the box which says something like'protect my computer etc')

- restart OneNote

- click the 'more tools' arrow at the right end of a toolbar

- select the rotating protractor tool

David

One of my commitments which I added to my list here at work is maintaining this blog. It's been almost

Please check link, not Working ATM.

I have attempted to get the image rorator to work, following every suggestion in this blog. No luck. It is present in Add/Remove programs. It is not present on OneNote icon or toolbar. Please give me an exact description of where it should be and how to access it.

Thanks!

Bill

billf at sheltertech.com

Sooooo sweet!!! It took me a while to find the little icon on the tool bar to turn on the floating ImageTools bar, but I got it.

My customers submit POs in landscape PDF format and now I don't have to turn my laptop on its side to read them.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

Great little tool. Thanks!

John, you could really do with creating a summary of the need for the .NET Program support above. It took me a good 10mins to locate the solution by which time a lot of people may well have given up and aborted!

Thanks again.

Rob

Just to confirm that the installation issues for non-admin users are still there.

I tried the "Run as" trick suggested by David Stokes above, and it did not work (XP Pro SP2). Whatever I tried, (a) there was *never* an "install for all users" check box (the only choice ever given was of the installation location), and (b) the add-in never showed up for the limited user account (it DID work for the admin user, but was not even listed in Tools->Options->Add-Ins for the limited user).

The workaround was to log in as an admin, temporarily change the limited user to an administrator, run a repair as the formerly-limited user, then change the role back to a limited account. Now it works fine from that account.