Archive Magazine CD 1995/Archive Magazine CD 1995.iso/text/hints/volume_05/issue_04

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Hints and Tips
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•   A5000 monitor problem − One problem which various people seem to have
had with the Acorn A5000 monitors is intermittent contact on the mains
cable but the solution is simple. When you plug the power cable into the
monitor, it seems to go in but actually, to get it fully home, you have
to push it very firmly.
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•   Draw files in Impression − Did you know that when using Draw files in
Impression frames, it is possible to “zoom” in on a part you want to
concentrate on and bring it up to “fill the frame”? This means you can,
for example, call up a file of, say, a fruit filled bowl and then choose
the apple to fill the space available in your document or show a group
of cartoon figures and, in the next frame, have a “close up” of one
face. Since Draw files are capable of incredible scaling, their should
be no real loss of detail involved.
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The procedure is simple. Create a frame for the draw file. Open the
directory containing the Draw file. Drag it into the frame in the usual
way. Changing the shape of the frame with its handles using <select>
will “crop” the picture until only the part you require is visible. Then
enlarge the frame using the adjust button on the corner handles. The
cropped picture will “grow” with your mouse movements. (Well, stone me!
I didn’t know that! Please keep sending these “obvious” hints − they are
not obvious to everyone. Ed.)
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Incidentally, don’t try moving a frame containing a Draw file around the
page using the usual method of pointing inside it, holding down <select>
and waiting for the blue lines to appear. If you don’t wait quite long
enough, the graphic moves inside the frame and bang goes your careful
alignment! Instead, hold down <ctrl> when you press <select> and the
frame can be moved safely and immediately. Kevin Beales, Shropshire.
(The latter hint was also sent in by Johannes Thordarson of  Ice
land.)  A
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