APPENDIX C4
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* DEVELOPING GRAPHIC DOCUMENTS *
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The following document is extracted from Michael Salem's
homepage (Michael Salem was one of my students).
MICHAEL SALEM'S BBS
1/23/96
Expanded 1/25/96
Diagrams & Graphics:
I am creating my diagrams & graphics using Micosoft Word
(drawing function).
To convert these documents to .gif files I am using Lview
Pro 1.b which is a shareware program that I obtained from
the Internet:
(ftp://ftp.std.com/ftp/vendors/mmedia/lview/lviewp1b.zip).
I also downloaded a copy of Paint Shop 3.11 which performs
the same function but it is just a 30 day trail copy.
(ftp://ftp.winternet.com/users/jasc/psp311.zip).
I have included links to these sites, but it is best to
download them directly to your PC via netscape or FTP
software.
The way I have used Lview Pro is as follows, I will assume
that if you are interested in posting images, that you have
an Internet account of your own.
1) Create your diagram in Word, Powerpoint or whatever.
2) Load Lview Pro.
3) Switch windows back to you diagram (Word, Powerpoint, ..)
etc)
4) Press Ctrl Esc and select Lview Pro
5) In the Edit Menu of Lview Pro select Capture
Note this will capture the whole screen so your diagram
needs to fit on 1 screen. You may need to change the
zoom in Word, Powerpoint, ... to get every thing to fit.
6) Now you need to crop the screen you captured. You will
notice that the mouse cursor is in the form of cross
hairs. Place the graphics cursor in the right top corner
of the section you wish to crop. Press the mouse button
and hold it while you move the mouse to box the area of
the screen you wish to crop. Release the mouse button.
7) Now select Crop from the Edit menu.
8) You are now ready to save, select Save As from the File
menu. On the Save As pop-up menu make sure you select
the file type to be "gif 87a" and give the file an
extension of .gif.
9) You can view you image with Netscape by entering the
drive path and file name on the address location line
(for example a:flow.gif).
10) Once you image is complete you can transfer it with FTP.
LINKING:
The way I linked my diagrams was as follows:
1) On my internet account I create a HTML file that
contained a title & header for the diagram and a link to
the image.
The HTML command to link to a image is
<IMG SRC="flow.gif" alt="image of flow chart">
Where flow.gif is the image file and alt is text that
will be display if the viewer does not have a browser
that can display an image.
2) In my assignment I use a link to the HTML document in my
internet account.
<a href="http://www.icanect.net/~salem/d7.html"> 3.2.3.
Data Flow Diagram</a>
Where:
www.icanect.net is the address to my internet provider
~salem points to my directory
d7.html it the name of the file
<menu>
<li><a href="ftp://ftp.std.com/ftp/vendors/mmedia/
lview/lviewp1b.zip"> Download Lview Pro</a>
<li><a href="ftp://ftp.winternet.com/users/jasc/
psp311.zip">Download Paint Shop</a>
</menu>
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