Re: re-import graphics?

["Jeremy H. Griffith" <jeremy@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 15:51:10 -0400, larry.kollar@arrisi.com 
wrote:

>Jeremy Griffith wrote:
>
>> ... When you shrink by resetting DPI, you *may*
>> wind up with the image appearing to be "gone" because it is
>> now entirely outside the "window" provided by the frame.  In
>> that case, it can be brought back into view by enlarging the 
>> frame; there doesn't seem to be another good method.  ;-)
>
>Actually, there is....

I guess you didn't try it out... I did.  ;-)

>1) Select the anchored frame
>2) Cmd-A (or Ctrl-A) or Edit menu -> Select All*
>3) Graphics menu -> Align
>4) Select T/B centers, L/R centers, click OK

And all objects in the frame are centered on the last
one in Z-order (frontmost)... but they are *not*
centered in the frame!  If there is only one object,
nothing at all happens.  Distribute does you no good
either.  I was sure something like this would work,
and spent a while experimenting, but finally was
reduced to the process I described above... ;-)

>*Which selects everything "inside" the anchored frame,
>whether visible or not. After doing this, you could use
>Object Properties to fix the offsets instead of using
>Align.

If you only have one object... otherwise, when you
Ungroup, you have no practical way to select just one 
of the ungrouped items if they are all out of sight.  
Sorry.  <g>  We are in Catch-22 land here...  OTOH,
this *will* work for a single object in the frame.

>I wrote an AppleScript to do something similar (resize
>a selected anchored frame & reposition the graphics
>inside). If the selection contained more than one object,
>the script would Group, then move, then Ungroup.

You could certainly do it with a script, Apple or Frame,
or with the FDK.  <vVbg>  But I didn't think that the
original poster had any of these tools handy... seeing
as she was on Windows, no AppleScript...  FrameScript
costs (though it also pays ;-)... and FDK, well, if
you like using a shotgun to swat mosquitos...

Actually, as I noted in an off-list follow-up, by
cropping her screenshots and importing them at 96DPI,
Gen did the Right Thing in the first place.  It's the 
only way to keep screenshot text legible on screen,
if any on-line Help use is planned.  For print-only, 
you can indeed use 300dpi and retain legibility, since
the printer has more pixels to use for rendition...
but it's really better practice to focus on the part
of the image under discussion by judicious cropping.

-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
  (jeremy@omsys.com)  http://www.omsys.com/

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