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Get the position of an element

Source: R/element_generics.R
get_position.Rd

Parses the element's affine transform from the raw API node and returns a slide_position object encoding top, left, width, height (all in inches), and rotation (in degrees). Works on any element subclass.

Google Slides stores positions using an affine transform matrix (scaleX, scaleY, shearX, shearY, translateX, translateY) plus a nominal size. get_position() decomposes the matrix to recover the rendered dimensions and rotation angle.

Usage

get_position(x, ...)

Arguments

x

An element object or subclass.

Value

A slide_position object. Can be passed directly to add_text(), add_image(), etc. to recreate the element at the same location.

See also

slide_position(), get_raw()

Examples

if (FALSE) {
  ps <- register_presentation(id = "YOUR_PRESENTATION_ID", set_active = FALSE)
  slide_obj <- on_slide_number(1, ps)
  el <- get_elements(slide_obj, type = "text")[[1]]
  pos <- get_position(el)
  pos@top
  pos@left
}