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:(update March 4, 2009: the download link is now below my signature at the end of this entry).
Here it is in action. Before rotating an image:
And after rotating 90 degrees to the right:
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
Comments
Anonymous
December 14, 2007
PingBack from http://msdnrss.thecoderblogs.com/2007/12/15/image-rotator-powertoy-for-onenote-2007/Anonymous
December 20, 2007
Gary Neitzke took a few minutes to create a draft of how to create a "floating toolbar" with your addinsAnonymous
December 20, 2007
Gary Neitzke took a few minutes to create a draft of how to create a "floating toolbar" withAnonymous
December 20, 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.Anonymous
December 20, 2007
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December 25, 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.Anonymous
December 26, 2007
Hello Joe, Sure - can you send me the image? And what do you mean "Running under Fusion?" JohnAnonymous
December 26, 2007
Oh, you can mail the images to johnguin. Use the hotmail ending (boy, I hate spam bots which harvest email addresses). JohnAnonymous
December 29, 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)Anonymous
January 13, 2008
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!Anonymous
January 25, 2008
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! -SpartacusAnonymous
January 25, 2008
Can you double check to see if the toolbar is showing up "below" the OneNote window? JohnAnonymous
February 07, 2008
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February 12, 2008
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.Anonymous
February 12, 2008
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. JohnAnonymous
February 13, 2008
I am prompted for the installation folder (C:Program FilesMicrosoftOneNote ImageTools), but that is all. Is there a commandline switch I can use to specify all users?Anonymous
February 13, 2008
Let me see what I can find out about the setup files Visual Studio builds. Sorry for the problems, JohnAnonymous
February 14, 2008
Thanks. The tool works great for the user it installs for! It corrects a crucial oversight by Microsoft, IMHO.Anonymous
February 16, 2008
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. ElizabethAnonymous
February 25, 2008
Update: I tried using the ALLUSERS=1 switch as follows, but it didn't help. MSIEXEC.EXE /i "OneNote ImageTools.msi" ALLUSERS=1Anonymous
February 25, 2008
I just wanted to thank you for making this. It's awesome!Anonymous
February 29, 2008
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?? ThanksAnonymous
February 29, 2008
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?Anonymous
February 29, 2008
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.Anonymous
March 01, 2008
BTW, now that I have it working, thank you!Anonymous
March 03, 2008
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!!!Anonymous
March 23, 2008
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.Anonymous
April 25, 2008
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.Anonymous
April 25, 2008
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, JohnAnonymous
May 10, 2008
I can't download the tool, are you out of bandwidth? i really need it :(Anonymous
May 11, 2008
The server is being upgraded this weekend (5/11/08). Sorry for the problems. It should be back up soon. JohnAnonymous
May 12, 2008
thank you! at first i thought the server was no longer maintained, and i got here too late.Anonymous
May 13, 2008
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!Anonymous
May 13, 2008
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, JohnAnonymous
May 20, 2008
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.Anonymous
June 24, 2008
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.Anonymous
July 14, 2008
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.Anonymous
August 10, 2008
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 AdamAnonymous
August 11, 2008
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. JohnAnonymous
August 13, 2008
what about image cropping are you planning on adding that?Anonymous
August 14, 2008
I got a request a few days ago to see about posting the code for the image rotator powertoy. Gary agreedAnonymous
August 14, 2008
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). JohnAnonymous
August 19, 2008
Second that for Image Cropping... any plans?Anonymous
August 25, 2008
One of my hobbies which I never have time for is playing around with my old TRS-80 Color Computer . ForAnonymous
August 31, 2008
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.Anonymous
September 17, 2008
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. ThanksAnonymous
September 18, 2008
took a while to figure out how to get it going...but it's great now!!! thanks so much!!!Anonymous
September 20, 2008
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September 22, 2008
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September 22, 2008
I didn’t see any license information when I installed this as a test, can this be used in a corporate environment? JamesAnonymous
September 22, 2008
Yes. This addin can be used anywhere - thanks for using OneNote! JohnAnonymous
November 29, 2008
Thanks for the add-in. I have a few suggestions that would make it better in my opinion:
- Make the toolbar tockable
- 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.
- When it is visible, don't show it in the taskbar!
- Make it faster. Thanks again.
Anonymous
December 15, 2008
I travel every once in a while and I like to have some notes with me. Its easiest to scan to PDF and print to OneNote. Unfortunately, it was always side ways. I figured switching to landscape would help and it didnt. I figured I'd google it and find a way to do it and didnt think I'd come across your add-on. The tool is Awesome! Thanks!Anonymous
December 24, 2008
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January 12, 2009
I am a medical student and this tool has saved me HOURS of frustration. Literally! I have been so frustrated when professors post PDF's and they come up upside-down. I've been copying the files to jpg, and manually rerotating them manually! Thank you!Anonymous
January 26, 2009
One of my commitments which I added to my list here at work is maintaining this blog. It's been almostAnonymous
February 23, 2009
Great tool! I use my tablet in all my classes and this makes my handouts finally readable. Great Job solving a huge problem!Anonymous
March 04, 2009
Please check link, not Working ATM.Anonymous
March 04, 2009
Thanks. The server that was hosting many of these went away - bear with me as I restore from backups. JohnAnonymous
March 30, 2009
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.comAnonymous
April 06, 2009
Thank you for the add-on, it really helped me out with pdf rotation issues in onenoteAnonymous
April 08, 2009
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!!!Anonymous
June 11, 2009
Works great (once I found the icon tagged on to the end of the standard toolbar)thank you for this. But why oh why isn't this part of the standard package. Onenote is such a great tool but suffers terribly from some missing functions such as rotate text, crop an image and group items. 2007 is so much better than 2003 so can only hope that the next release will plug some of the holes.Anonymous
June 16, 2009
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June 17, 2009
Good point. I've started adding a readme file to the downloads that includes this information. Thanks!Anonymous
June 20, 2009
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July 10, 2009
Great tool! Thanks for creating and sharing it.Anonymous
August 21, 2009
I LOVE YOU GUYS FOR CREATING THE TOOL AND FOR THE TROUBLESHOOT!!!!!!!Anonymous
August 23, 2009
Just to be certain.... when I'm checking to see if the compatibility is installed for ON in the tree... I do see the .NET Programmability Support tab. Does this mean it is installed properly for your tool to work? If the programmability was NOT installed would it just not appear in the tree? ThanksAnonymous
August 24, 2009
If it was not installed, it would appear but have a red X through it. As long as it does not have the red X, you should be set. Good question, though. I'll try to find some time to update the readme for these toys.Anonymous
August 24, 2009
This is great! Thank you very much.Anonymous
September 02, 2009
Hooray!!! I love this power toy!! Good on you for making it.Anonymous
September 30, 2009
Just figured it out. Great tool, very helpful. Thanks!Anonymous
October 23, 2009
This is so brilliant! Thanks a lot. John, it took me a long time to find the image button. I'm not sure if it wasn't there all the time I was installing and re-installing. Could you please add a screen shot or two to the "readmet" file?Anonymous
October 24, 2009
Tried the tool, no good. Getting greyed out. Never had all user option available either. All .net updates were installed previously as well as .net support already on in one note before hearing about tool. Any new fixes for this issue that I can try? Registry key to look for?Anonymous
October 26, 2009
No registry keys. I'm investigating on my end - the only workaround I know is pretty harsh, but effective. Exit ON and reboot. don't start ON - uninstall the powertoy. reinstall now reboot (again, this is probably not needed and there is no logical reason for this, but it helps me be sure about the state of the addin) start ON Sorry for the problems, JohnAnonymous
November 03, 2009
It would be heaps cool if you included a screen dump in your instructions. I have the .NET thing activated, but I still cannot get it working.Anonymous
November 03, 2009
Which screen shot do you need?Anonymous
November 04, 2009
The one about fixing the greying.Anonymous
November 24, 2009
I love you. (But still pretty dumb that MS forgot to include this AND even worse, not include in a product update)Anonymous
November 24, 2009
That's why we give this toy away. Seriously, I always scan documents upside down (always!) and this helps get them right side up so OCR can work.Anonymous
February 01, 2010
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February 22, 2010
Thank you sir. Works great for PDF files and note taking!Anonymous
April 07, 2010
Installs and runs fine on OneNote 2010 but does not actually rotate or flip when used, just says waiting and then does nothing :<Anonymous
April 07, 2010
The OneNote 2007 toys will only work with 2007 format sections. If your section is in 2010 format, the addin won't work. You can right click on the notebook and select Properties to see what format you are using.Anonymous
May 01, 2010
I hate to ask for help, but I can't seem to get this to work. I've looked through the comments, I've tried uninstalling, reboot, then install, but still... nothing. I don't think I'm even seeing the "image tools" icon at all. Would it be possible for someone post a picture of what the new rotate button is supposed to look like? Is a new toolbar supposed to show up when I click on an image? Thanks in advance!Anonymous
May 01, 2010
(I'm on Windows 7, and I checked that I had .NET installed.)Anonymous
May 01, 2010
yes - a new toolbar should pop up when you click the button. sometimes it appears "below" the OneNote window - can you resize OneNote to check?Anonymous
May 01, 2010
Wow, that was fast response! Okay. I found a picture on the internet of what it's supposed to look like, and I definitely do not see it. I've tried resizing, and it's definitely not there. A couple of questions: Does this toolbar show up automatically when I select an image? And is there any way to access this via the menu or right clicking? (I tried looking in Tools -> Customize, but can't find it under "All Commands". Thanks!Anonymous
May 01, 2010
You have to select the image, then click the icon which got added to the toolbar. Then the new toolbar opens. Sorry for the problems.Anonymous
May 03, 2010
Thank you for your replies. Unfortunately, I was not able to get it to work, despite trying a few more times. Hopefully a similar feature be included in OneNote 2010!Anonymous
June 04, 2010
Is it a single button called ImageTools? I tried rotating it, but got an error from .NET "Not implemented". Do you want all of the error code? Office Enterprise 2007, OneNote with .NET functionality, .NET Framework 4.0 installed, restarted, no luck. :(Anonymous
June 04, 2010
Sure - send me what you have, and if you could include the OneNote page as well to let me know what you are rotating I would appreciate it.Anonymous
June 05, 2010
Sending you an email now. :) For spam filters, it'll be from ikjadoon -at- Google's email. Those pesky harvesters.... ;)Anonymous
July 20, 2010
I'm not sure if it's supposed to work with OneNote 2010, but it does absolutely nothing for me. It says please wait, complete, and then the printout isn't rotated.Anonymous
July 20, 2010
This addin will only work in OneNote 2010 if the section is in 2007 format. FWIW, ON 2010 includes image rotation as a native feature, so this addin will not get updated...Anonymous
July 23, 2010
I have ON 2010 and although there is a Rotate button on the Draw ribbon, it is grayed out when I click on a pdf image. I can find no native method for rotating pdf images in ON 2010, and as mentioned by others, this Powertoy does not work in ON 2010. Any suggestions? Would really like to have this functionality. (The Rotate button does work with jpg images, btw).Anonymous
July 24, 2010
It's not updated for 2010 (as of July 2010) so it will only work with sections in 2007 format. Good point about the printouts, though. I'll see if Gary has time to update it.Anonymous
August 25, 2010
Great tool. Worked perfectly with my OneNote 2007 installation. Many thanks.Anonymous
September 29, 2010
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October 13, 2010
Hi how exactly do you use this... i tried installinig it, but it did not work pleasee help mee !!! my notes are all in landscape and not readableAnonymous
October 13, 2010
What version of OneNote do you have? Did you look on the standard toobar for the rotate icon?Anonymous
January 08, 2011
Thanks John! this tool has worked beautifully for the last couple years. However, for some reason it stopped working since the new year....wondering if it had to do with any recent updates from windows. Anyone else having this problem?Anonymous
January 08, 2011
Not that I have heard. Check to make sure the window is not under a different window, and make sure you are using a 2007 format notebook (if you upgraded to ON 2010).Anonymous
January 08, 2011
I am running the 2007 onenote format. The window is indeed present, but it momentarily freezes my onenote, but never actually rotates the image. I tried removing and reinstalling the image rotator, but still to no avail. Any other suggestions? Thanks for any help that you can offer!Anonymous
January 08, 2011
Can you email me the page that has the problem? use the link in the upper right to send me mail, then I can reply and after all that you can send an attachment.Anonymous
January 16, 2011
Thank you very much. It took a while to get it, but ultimately the program is great. Muchas gracias amigo. Eres grande.Anonymous
March 02, 2011
Heyla and well met! I installed the rotator on OneNote 2007, making sure that .Net thingie was installed on OneNote, but it doesn't work. It's just grayed out, not even allowing me to rotate the image. I did read the previous posts about this, and I followed the steps of uninstalling and rebooting the computer to make sure OneNote wasn't running in the background, but still no dice. Is this just something about OneNote 2007?Anonymous
March 02, 2011
Did you double check to see if the floating toolbar was "under" OneNote? Sorry for the problems. Let me know if the toolbar does not open.Anonymous
March 03, 2011
What do you mean by "under" OneNote? (I had posted a comment, earlier, but for whatever reason, it doesn't seem to have been actually posted to your blog.)Anonymous
March 03, 2011
The earlier comment got tagged as spam for some reason. Anyway, the adidn pops up a little toolbar. Sometimes that toolbar will draw underneath the OneNote window and you need to minimize or move the OneNote window to see the toolbar. Can you try that to see if this is happening to you?Anonymous
March 03, 2011
It seems like a fixed button on the drawing tools toolbar. After playing around with it, further, I discovered that the rotation tool actually manages to work when clicking on, say, handwriten samples I had created with my graphics tablet. However, it doesn't work with files inserted as printouts. Is this as intended? If the tool is only meant to work with images from made from the drawing tool, is there a tool that can rotate images from inserted printouts? When trying to insert printouts from PDF files, the files that needed to be viewed in landscape would appear in portrait, making the document either unreadable or the source of a lot of neck pain. The workaround I have, so far, is to take screen clippings of the specific pages I'm interested in, but if a file consists of many pages in landscape view, I can see such an exercise becoming quite tedious. If the tool isn't working as intended, I realized I should supply a bit of further information that may help: As I said, I'm using OneNote 2007. My OS is Windows Vista. I'm not quite sure if the fact that I'm using Vista might be part of my problem. Anyhow, thank you for being so willing to help! TheKeeperAnonymous
April 05, 2011
Thanks. Exactly what I needed!Anonymous
April 18, 2011
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June 07, 2011
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June 21, 2011
Please consider updating this to work in OneNote 2010; tbh I can't believe the functionality from the powertoy just wasn't included in the first place!Anonymous
June 22, 2011
Liam: that functionality is included: Draw=>Rotate. Jan RoelofAnonymous
September 09, 2011
Draw=>Rotate only works for shapes, not for images. This is still the the case in OneNote 2010.Anonymous
March 19, 2014
Hey, thanks for this awesome tool! A quicker fix for the non-admin user accounts is to simply install it using the admin account (i used run as through the working users account), and then just launch the installer again as the user and click through the "repair" process. The icon will appear after restarting OneNote.Anonymous
June 09, 2014
Please update this to work in Onenote 2013. The Onetastic add-in has a rotate function, but it is terribly slow. Virtually useless.Anonymous
June 10, 2014
Image rotation is now built into OneNote so I never updated this addin.Anonymous
June 12, 2014
I find image rotation does not work when printing a .pdf into Onenote 2013. The Onetastic app works, but is incredibly slow.Anonymous
November 02, 2014
Hi! the toolbar opens a new window but does not actually do anything. I have one note 2010 and windows 7 if that is important! I have tried to suggestions on this thread already! Any advice would be great!Anonymous
January 28, 2015
I realise that this tool is written for OneNote2007 - BUT Has anyone got this add-in to successfully run in OneNote2010? I too have OneNote 2010 and Win7, and the utility installs and opens, and tells me to 'Please Wait' but nothing further happens.. :(