Teched
Exporting screen images
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In most of the
documentation of computer based projects, you will want to export images of what
you have drawn. These images can then be used in web pages, powerpoint
presentations, or printed.
Steps
Arrange your work on the
screen so that you can see all of the relevant parts of the project.
Look
through the tool bars for a feature that will "export the image", or "save as
image", or "create image of..." Different programs will have this feature
in different places and use different names to describe it. If it has it,
try it. It may be a bitmap, which will have to be converted to a JPEG to
be used in a web page.
Making the image and cropping it
If you
don't see a feature that will do it easily, look on the keyboard for the
"PRINTSCRN" button
Press the button. This will put the entire screen in
the pasteboard of the computer.
Open a new MSPAINT document.
Choose paste
from the EDIT menu.
Draw a dotted line box around the part of the image that
contains your project.
Copy the image of your
project.
Converting Bitmaps to JPEG format
Open the
document you want to use the image in.
If it is Netscape Composer or
Mozilla Composer, the software will create a new jpeg.
Right Click on the
image.
Choose SAVE AS
Name the image in a way that indicates what it
is.
Save it to "YourProject/Graphics" directory.
Right Click on the image
and choose IMAGE PROPERTIES.
Choose your image from your graphics directory
as the display image.
In the image dialog box, make sure that you do not
stretch the picture.
Choose "Constrain Image" to keep it displayed at
the original height and width ratio.
Link your image to the file that
it represents.
In Composer (Netscape or Mozilla)
Right Click on the
image and choose CREATE LINK, or CREATE LINK USING SELECTED
Link to the
document in the "YourName/Drawings" directory for cad or
"YourName/Programs".
When you link it, the dialog box will be looking for
HTML files, you will need to choose ALL FILES from the "FILES OF TYPE" pull down
menu.
Testing your page
Open the page you have created
in a web browser.
Check to see that the image is loading properly
Test
your link in the browser. Make sure that it does what you intended it to
do.
Try it in another browser.
Upload the project directory to the server
and try it again.
If the image does not load, the page may be trying
to load an image from the TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES Directory. Check your
code.
Try the page from another computer.
You can have a friend do
it for you, but watch as they test.
Make any changes that your testing has
shown as flaws.
Resave and upload again.
