I am doing a mind map drawing on visio and I have used the auto arrange feature. This has caused the drawing to go over the stipulated page size (A3) into so many other pages. How do I bring the entire drawing back to A3 size without distorting the flow of the diagram.
I have attached a picture for a better description: screen shot of visio diagram
It looks like you've got a newer version then me, but in Visio 2007 at least, on the File menu you can go to Page Setup. In the Print zoom settings, there're options to "fit to [x] sheets across by [y] sheets down". Setting this to 1 x 1 might do what you want, but it'll just scale it all so you might end up with rather small text!
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I have a pdf report created within Jaspersoft studio and the biggest issue I am having is making it both 508 accessible via screen readers and colors of each series.
I've been told I need to make the bars have different patterns for each series but I am not sure how to do that in Jasper, all I have been seeing is a way to change the solid color of each bar.
Then I know there are tags for tables in jasper to make it readable to a screen reader, is there something similar for charts or is alt-text the only way?
Thanks
Accessible graphs for screen reader users is a huge challenge. Making a graph readable for a color deficient user is a bit easier. As you mentioned, patterns are typically used (although I'm not familiar with jasper so I can't comment on how to implement patterns, sorry). If you have a color graph, try viewing it in gray scale to see how the contrast between data series looks (print on a black and white printer). That's typically why you'd want patterns.
One of the new WCAG 2.1 guidelines talks about how adjacent graphical elements (such as two bars next to each other) should have a minimum contrast ratio of 3:1. See success criteria 2.4.1 - Non-text Contrast. So if you had a light blue bar and a dark blue bar, it might be ok, although patterns are the best bet.
(If you have the rgb values for the colors of your bars, you can use a color contrast checker such as https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/ to see if you have a sufficient 3:1 ratio)
I'm not aware of a way to make a graph accessible in pdf. If you had an alt attribute, it would have to be very lengthy to accurately describe the graph.
I'm making cuts of an image to use in various parts of my website; The header, the footer, etc. When I copy and paste to a new layer, it leaves a "feathered" edge. even though I have this set to zero. There is a 1 pixel margin around all of the copy and pasted images, that, when assembled as a web page using CSS, leaves little lines between all of the images. I was a professional graphic designer but I've been out of the game too long (2 whole years). God help me.
I'm not 100% sure of the source of the initial assets such as the header and footer, so I'm a little confused (some links might be nice), however it is worth checking a few things just to make sure. Hit M for the marquee and check thats feather amount. L for the lasso (long shot) and check that too, also check for any layer styles.
A nice little alternative, if you are exporting out individual assets,is go to File > Scripts > Export Layers to Files. This may save you a lot of trouble in the long run.
Hopefully this may help...
Additionally how are you copying? Is it from inside Photsohop or are you placing the layers? Are you using the marquee tool?
for try, don't use crop tool.. use select tool instead. select tool provides pixel level accuracy.
In addition to feather, try turning off anti-aliasing in your selections. After you make a selection, in the select options toolbar uncheck 'Anti-alias'.
If this is set photoshop will try to average the edges of the selection with the surrounding pixels to make it 'blend' better. This is worse than useless if you're trying to make accurate, pixel-level selections.
In Photoshop CC, after selecting with the marquee tool, right click to access the Feather option. Enter 0.1 and then copy and paste. That should take care of it.
I just encountered this problem. I'd cut and pasted and then dragged into a new image which created a new layer with the paste on. I then realised that the feathering was wrong. I changed the settings but forgot to change the active layer back to the background layer, so I was cutting and pasting the feathered cut I did originally. Facepalm.
I'm completely newbie to Qt
i want to create a 800X600 window that just show some circle and be able to manipulate pixels of the form. there is no interaction between user and form(no click, no dblclick,...) it just shows some circles with one color and lines with different pixel colors(each line may have different pixel colors)
also i want to be able to change the coordination system, i mean change it from top-left to the center of the window. could anyone help me do that with some sample code?
thanks in advance for your reply.
Please try downloading the Qt Creator (IDE), then reading through the tutorials. There's a whole host of very useful information provided for free, including a lot of the code samples you are looking for.
The following examples might also be of particular interest:
Animation Framework Examples
Graphics View Examples
Painting Examples
I'm working on a Perl/Tk GUI. It will have three main areas. Two of them side by side on top and then another one below the two.
I could just use grid geometry management. The upper two would have a row weight of 2. The lower one would have a weight of 1.
This would be good for the starting position, but the user needs the ability to adjust the sizes.
Looking at the Tk documentation, PanedWindows can also have a weight, but I can't figure out how to access it.
As I have it now, with my Paned frames, the upper and left children are minimum size, everthing else fills the area below and to the right. If I adjust the main window. only the lower and right windows are resize. Worst of all, I can resize the window and make some of the children disappear.
I want to maintain the current relative sizes.
How do I do this? I'm not tied to paned, grid, pack. Whatever works.
Sounds like you are using frames in Tk. While I have never used Perl/Tk, I am kind of savy html which Tk is probably based on html. So, you might want to look into frames and framesets at Frames in HTML documents on the W3C site.
It sounds like you need 1 frameset with 2 frames for the top and another frame for the bottom.
I hope that this helps.
I’ve been busy working on the graphics for my iPhone application. I started working on generating icons for my UITabBar and ran into lots of problems. How do you create these icons?
I created this solution:
http://www.nailrails.com/?p=46
Are there any shortcomings to this approach? It seemed to work for the few icons I created...
Apple's guidelines can be found at http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/MobileHIG/IconsImages/IconsImages.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40006556-CH14-SW1
The docs are pretty straightforward-- alpha is all that matters when the image gets loaded by the toolbar, meaning that anything that's not at least semitransparent will render in the same opaque shade. As for how I do that, I mainly use Adobe tools. Fireworks is my preferred tool but Photoshop's also more than up to it. Another one I've had good results with is Acorn, which is frankly a lot cheaper while being more than sophisticated enough for this kind of work. I'm not really a graphic designer but a certain familiarity with this kind of stuff goes with the job.
I have an article up on my site that shows how to use OmniGraffle with a template I use to create great iPhone toolbar icons in minutes:
http://steveweller.com/articles/toolbar-icons/
The template sets up a grid to work to that corresponds to one square for each pixel. You draw your icon in white on top of the black template background and then export as a PDF exactly the right area to match the icon size you need (typically 21 pixels high). Then you reimport the PDF, resize it to the final icon size (21 pixels again), and export as PNG. The template does nothing magical; it just provides an already set up working area and helps you get the final PNG right every time to the scale is correct.
You could use the same technique in Acorn or any other app that supports PDF export and layers.
(I use Gimp. Assume your icon layer already has alpha channel.)
Right click the layer, then add layer mask.
Done with option "transfer alpha channel of layer" chosen.
Select the whole layer (but not layer mask), and clear it with pure white.
Resize image to Apple-suggested size, and export it as png file.
You may also paint directly on the layer mask.