ÉÍÍÍÍÍ C. WARD YELVERTON ÍÍÍÍÍÍ» º CIS: 76430,3564 º º 904/328-1711 * SFax:328-3811 º ÈÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍͼ SUBJECT: Blank "canvasses" for drawing fax LOGOs for use with the Intel SatisFAXtion fax/modem card software. FILES: BLANK3.PCX 8.4" x 3" fax resolution blank PCX image BLANK4.PCX 8.4" x 4" fax resolution blank PCX image BLANK.TXT You're reading it. One of the more frustrating experiences of new SFAX users is trying to prepare a neat Logo graphic to place on the top of your cover sheets in order to properly impress your hapless addressees. Unless you're awfully experienced with computer bit-map graphics, or equipped with one of the powerful paint or drafting programs, it seems like everything is working against you. Well relax, it is! The bit-map paint programs were mostly designed to prepare drawings for viewing on the computer monitor, and all of their dimensions and resolution are directed toward the screen size. They don't know about the fax's 200-dpi (more or less, actually its 204h x 196v, but who's counting?) resolution. You whip out your Paintbrush program that came with Windows 3 and start drawing away; it looks great, and probably even prints great from Paintbrush. But when you use the resulting PCX file as a Logo and print it from the FAX program, you get a little crunched up mess in one corner of where you expected to see your immortal work of art. The scaling grinch gotcha! Other that charging out and buying a commercial drawing program (personally I use Micrografx's DESIGNER and it works great if you're serious about drawing), the only paint program I've found that permits you to set exactly the size (in pixels) PCX file you want is the really excellent Windows ShareWare program "Paint Shop" by Robert Voit, JASC, Inc., 72557,256; it's available on CompuServe in ZENITH Lib-15 "Windows" and probably in GRAPHSUP. But isn't there some way you can use the Windows Paintbrush program you've already got (assuming you're using Windows)? Sure, that what the two accompanying files are for. Import one of them into Paintbrush ("Open") and you've got a blank canvas exactly the final size you want. Draw whatever you want onto the blank, "Save as:" a different filename so you'll have the blank to play with another day, and you've got your logo the right size. You have to "eyeball" your scale, and the text size choices given in the menu aren't even close to the final size. Pick a point size at least 4 times larger than you want, draw yourself some squares and circles and measure their sizes on the monitor screen. Then save your test file and print it out with the FAX program. That will give you an idea of what sizes of text you'll actually want to use and how to scale on the monitor as you're drawing so the end result will be the size you want it. By the way, all the fancy Adobe fonts with ATM will be available to you in Win PB; you can make a real professional logo drawing using this technique with just a little trial and error. ABOUT DIMENSIONS: The ISO Group-3 standard fax image is 1728 pixels wide with a length of 215mm (this comes very close to 204-dpi). Every line is filled out to this full length. The 2 BLANKx.PCX files are 1720 pixels wide, just because (hey, they're my files and that's the size I chose). The ISO standard for the vertical resolution is 7.7-lines/mm in Fine resolution (196-dpi). The SatisFAXtion cover sheet layout provides room for a 3" high (600 pixel) logo image, and this is the height of the BLANK3.PCX image which is what you should use as the standard size. However (isn't there always one?); the SFAX cover will actually accept a logo up to 4" high (800 pixels) which just "happens" to be the size of the BLANK4.PCX. When you use a logo taller than 3" the rest of the cover sheet contents are shoved down and this extra inch costs you 6 lines of the normally available 36 lines of cover text. This means with a 4" high logo you had better restrict your text to 30 lines or you'll be sending longer than 11" sheets and your recipient's might not appreciate it (oh no, there is no ISO standard length, you can send a 6-foot long sheet if you want to; but I doubt if you'll ever convince the SFAX software to put up with that kind of foolishness without a lot of work). RECOMMENDATION: I recommend that you set the file attributes for the BLANKx.PCX files to Read Only, or you will surely goof up and overwrite them someday in the heat of artistic creativity. Of course, that's why the paint programs have eraser tools. THE WHATSIT: I release these files into the Public Domain. Do with them what you please. If they are useful, a What-A-Boy is always appreciated; if they are very useful and save you lots of money, I also accept Mercedes. If you think they're useless trash, I don't want to hear from you. enjoy, Ward Yelverton Fri 02-07-1992 [107] From: John H Price 2/13/92 10:33AM (19055 bytes: 12 ln, 3 fl) To mailing list: #compst cc: Cheryl Field Subject: Another How-to for logos ------------------------------- Message Contents ------------------------------- Text item 1: Thought you might want to take a look at what Ward whipped up to help people do logos in Windows PB. Cheryl, you may want to post this on the BBS--I'm sure Ward wouldn't mind. It would need a disclaimer about not supporting it any further, since if they can't even do this more help _won't_ help. Do we want to make this available to send out to customers? Put a Scoop reference that it's on BBS/CIS? Or just go with what we wrote up to put in the manual. jhp File item 2: BLANK.TXT 2/7/92 2:56PM File item 3: BLANK3.PCX 2/7/92 11:16AM File item 4: BLANK4.PCX 2/7/92 1:44PM