Add Comments to Visio Drawings using Python

This brief article guides to add comments to Visio drawings using Python. You can implement this feature to insert comments to Visio drawings using Python with a few quick steps. You can work with any of the Visio formats like VSD, VSDX, VSDM, etc., and append comments based on your workflow.

Steps to Insert Comments to Visio Drawings using Python

  1. Configure Aspose.Diagram on your end to add comments to Visio drawings
  2. Create an instance of the Diagram class to load the input Visio diagram
  3. Insert a comment to any page of the Visio file with the add_comment() method
  4. Write the created Visio file with the save method

These simple steps outline the relevant details to add comments to MS Visio file in Python. Simply load the source Visio diagram and append the comment while accessing a specific page using its index. Then specify the position coordinates for the comment as well as the text string before saving the output Visio file.

Code to Add Comments to Visio Diagrams using Python

The sample code above includes just a few API calls to append comments to Visio drawings using Python. The comments are added at page level hierarchy so first of all you need to access a page and then invoke any overload for the add_comment method. However, you can enhance the code snippet to add comments to different pages on different positions containing related text content to meet your requirements.

In this quick tutorial, we have learned to add comments to Visio drawings using Python. Whereas, if you want to convert a Visio file to SVG format in Python, refer to the article on Convert Visio to SVG in Python.

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