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Hi Diana, place the picture or the shape on the screen. Right-click in the middle of it. The cursor will become a four-way arrow. A small menu will appear. In that menu select ATTRIBUTES. From the list of colors in the next menu, you can select gold, silver and even copper. Make sure when you print that your density, both bitmap and vector, is set on at least 1000. These metallic colors tend to print a little on the light side. Maurice.
Hi everybody, I would like to make the small notecards just like the 1/2 fold ones. The small notecards are made by folding a regular 8 1/2 by 11 piece of paper TWO times. The reason why, is that I would like to use a thicker paper which wouldn't look nice if folded twice. If I cut a regular piece of paper in half and fold ONE of the pieces, I have a card the size of the regular small notecards. How can I print a notecard project with paper this size? I imagine I have to print one side and then print the other, but how do I go about doing this. I also can cut the paper after printing. This probably is the easiest thing to do, but my mind is blocked. I've tried copying and pasting, but I end of having to choose a notecard or card because of it's size and it's settings are made for the regular two-fold. I hope someone can understand what I'm saying!! I'm so mad because I just found out that a document I had made in Word with copies of things taught in this group and url's for paper stock, etc., got corrupted. I lost everything!! :-( Thank you very much, Gloria
Hi, Gloria. I'm not sure this is what you want to do, but this is how I do it. Open a note card, tall, side fold, & create your card, front, inside and back. Notice that the front & back rulers are a tad over 3" wide, and a tad over 4-1/4" tall. Also note when you go to the inside, the side ruler stays @ 4-1/2, but the top ruler changes to around 7-1/4" That's about 1/2 a page. When you go to print, disable the double side printing, and flip the page over yourself. The page will come out with a card on the top or lower portion of the page. Turn the page 180 degrees, print side down, and print again. Do the same for the other side. Pay close attention as to how the page comes out of the printer, or one side could be upside down! This way you'll end up with two cards per page. You say you have a paper cutter, or a way to cut your paper, so this should be no problem. I've never tried this with top fold, wide tho. Hope this helps, Frank 8-)>
I use KleenJet. Says it Cleans & maintains all inkjet and bubblejet printers. Says The easy quick and safe method for optimum inkjet and bubblejet printer performance. Prevents dried ink buildup, removes dust and debris, eliminates streaking and spotting. There are six sheets in a package. Cost is about $18.00. I bought mine at Staples. You spray the KleenJet liquid on the sheet and then send it through your printer. Marty
The only satisfactory program I have found so far is Adobe PhotoShop
4.0. Mindscape seems to think so too, because all the PM fun pictures
carry the PSD extension, and PhotoShop 4.0 is the only one that works in
PM. PhotoShop 3.0, although it also saves files with a PSD extension,
doesn't work in PM 4.0.
As an example we are going to use the Knight in Armor, OA1XX242.JPG. Put
the words "knight in armor" in the search window and select the top
picture. Check to see if it is the correct one by clicking on FILE and
EXPORT. It will reveal the file name. Export it to C:\TEMP. Close PM.
Open PS (PhotoShop) click on FILE and OPEN. Browse for C:\TEMP and
highlight the OA1XX242.JPG file. Click on OPEN. Picture should appear on
the page.
Click in the left tool menu on the Rectangular mask (top left one) and
drag the mask around the entire image. Click on EDIT and CUT. The image
should disappear and leave a blank page. The entire image is now on the
clipboard.
Click on FILE and NEW. We are now going to create a transparent
background. In the menu select 400 by 600 pixels, 72 pixels/inch. RGB
color, and TRANSPARENT . Click on OK.
A lightly checkered background appears over the entire page. The
"checkered" stands for "transparent." (how else are you going to show
"transparent?") Click on EDIT and PASTE. Your picture of the knight is
now placed on top of a transparent layer.
Click on the magnifying glass icon, at the bottom of the tool menu.
Click the magnifying cursor a couple of time on the head of the knight,
till the head only fills the page.
Click on the Lasso Mask, just below the Rectangular mask you used above.
Drag the Lasso Mask all around the periphery of the head. A dotted line
should appear around the head. Click on EDIT and CUT. This should leave
a hole where the head was. The transparent (checkered) layer should show
through the hole.
If you make a mistake at this step, just click on EDIT and UNDO LASSO
and start over.
Click on FILE and SAVE AS. Save as KNIGHT.PSD to C:\TEMP. Click on top
right X to close PS.
Open PM and BRAND NEW - POSTER. Click on the picture icon. FILE and OPEN
FROM DISK. Find the scanned photo of the person you want to be a knight.
Bring in onto the page.
Click on the picture icon again. Find C:\TEMP and KNIGHT.PSD. Bring it
onto the page, on top of the photo. Click on VIEW and ZOOM TO AREA.
Adjust size of photo to fit exactly in the hole on the knight image.
Print.
P.S. PhotoShop 4.0 imports only bitmap images (PSD, TIF, PCX, BMP, GIF,
JPG and a few others. It will NOT work with vector images such a CGM,
WMF, CDR and some versions of WPG. Convert those images first to any
bitmap format before using them in PhotoShop 4.0. Use HiJaak or any
other suitable conversion program.
Maurice.
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By George, I've GOT it... Thanks to all who made suggestions over the past couple of days. There may be alternatives, but the following is the FIRST time I've successfully made a new "fun photo" from scratch: (1) Locate a face-picture you want (I scanned a photo into my new HP5100C, saved to c:\temp\face01.BMP format). (2) Locate a graphic in PMP (I chose a little blue cherub/angel identified as: P-CRT039.CGM). (3) Highlight the graphic is the PMP album, and EXPORT it. I exported to c:\temp\angel01.cgm. (4) OPEN that image in Paint Shop Pro. (5) I then did a SAVE-AS to c:\temp\angel01.jpg. (6) I then opened that .jpg file in Adobe Photo Deluxe. (7) Select the Magic Wand tool, and left-click anywhere inside the face. This automatically does a dotted-line selection of the perimeter of the face. (8) DELETE the selection. This drops-out the angel face. (9) Then, ADD the face (in my case, c:\temp\face01.BMP) you want in its place. You now have two elements on your working board: the angel graphic with the face dropped out, and the picture with the face you want in its place. (10) SELECT the face you want, then select SEND-TO-BACK. This puts the face behind the angel, but since there's a hole where the angel face was, just the portion of the face you want shows through. You can resize and move-around the face til it looks right. (11) Now, with the image on the working board looking like you want it, do a SEND-TO-FILE-FORMAT. I sent it to c:\temp\angel02.BMP. (I first tried .JPG format, but got the message that "WINDOWS NEEDS IEXPLORE.EXE TO OPEN THIS IMAGE" ??). Anyway, the .BMP worked. (12) Now, all that's left is to go back to Print Master Platinum and select the ADD-OBJECT-FILE option for c:\temp\angel02.bmp. Jalla'!! Just like magic I had the PMP angel with my photo face!! NO loss of detail or colors!! (Whew...!!) Ed Dotson
To stop auto-run of CD's. Go to Control Panel. Double click on System. Click on Device Manager tab. Double click on CD-ROM to expand the branch. Click once on the name of your CDROM then click on Properties button, in the gray portion. Click on the the Settings tab. Under Options, de-select the Auto insert notification option. Click on OK, and OK, and restart your computer. Win95 will no longer automatically start your CDs.(From Windows Source Magazine 4/96). Daisy
Hi all, I have been lurking for awhile and gotten some great tips for using PrintMaster Gold. Its time to make a small contribution. A message was posted regarding file conversion programs. I have tried two file viewers that can convert to several other graphic formats. Both are freeware. One is IrView 2.63 that I downloaded from nonags.com. It is a small program but serves as a viewer, can convert to several graphic formats, and allows minor editing. The other program is Ulead's PhotoImpact Viewer. It is a viewer and can be used for file conversion to several formats as well. It is about 4 MB when installed. Dian
Dear Brook, When I use white border, the white shows but is too thin to set off my text from a similar color background. I tried increasing its thickness as though it were an outline, but that didn't make a difference. However, I found that using a white outline gives me almost the same effect, exept that the text color disappears in thin areas of the letters and all I see is white. When I outlined my text in a black, plus used a white border (I was up against a royal blue background and using royal blue text) the combination did set it off from the background. My favorite tone on tone though, was achieved by combining a white border with a white 3d shadow. Subtle, but easy enough to read. Lynn P.S. When I reread this I found that I had referred to the white printing out. I do realize that there is no white ink. It's just areas left uncolored.
Hi Brooks and everybody else interested in this subject. To illustrate this problem, place a dark background on a page. Then drag a text box over the backround. Now type in some black text. Notice how the black text is almost unreadable because of the dark background. You would suggest, of course "why don't you change the black text to lighter color?" But there is another solution. Click on FORMAT and FONT. You'll see a radio button marked WHITE BORDER AROUND TEXT. Select it. Now see the result on the screen and in Preview. Each character has a nice white border around itself, making the black text stand out perfectly versus the dark background. Well, this works only on the screen. When you try to print it, the white border suddenly disappears and it doesn't print at all. In consultation with Jay I found out that the culprits are printer drivers for inkjet printers. They simply don't print "white." (in reality there is no such thing as white ink. It is simply the absence of any color.) Well, to test this theory, I tried to print on a laser printer. It prints perfectly. Case proven. A work-around was given by Lynn: Use a white drop-down shadow for your text. That works perfectly. I use a white-filled rectangle layered behind the text. It works too. The ideal would be that we could choose the color of the "white border around text," such as 255.255.254 as an RGB value, "almost white." But unfortunately, the program does not allow that. Maybe in version 5.0? Maurice.
Looks like using a single coutour in line selection for the font works nicely too. Ken
Hi Robin, that is a perfect and easy way, dragging out a rectangular shape and coloring it. I sometimes want a graded background. I put all the combo windows with the word ALL and type in the search window the words GRADIENT BLEND. That returns about 20 graded backgrounds. I change its color and shading by clicking on the paint can icon and selecting MORE. I can then select the exact color I want by dragging the cross hairs over the color palette and moving the arrow on the right side of the palette up and down to find the correct color density. Maurice.
JoAnne and Robin, You don't have to create a separate rectangle to get a colored background for a label or any text box, although if you want the gradient blend Maurice suggests, you would. Simply create a text box, click on the outside to select the box itself (no cursor showing), click on the paint can and choose a color. This fills the text box with color. To choose a color for the outline of the textbox, I've always needed to make the line broader than the standard hairline, using the line width box. Then click the "O" outline box and choose a color. You can even create shadows for text boxes when the box itself is selected (not the text) by clicking on shadow style and shadow color. If your text box is not filled with a color, your shadow will appear to be an offset outline, but you can achieve a shadow look by filling your box with white. Lynn
our experience with win95 (all varients) is when it goes silent, the first thing to do is one CTL-ALT-DEL to see if there is a taks not responding; and, to end such if there is. *** we have learned, for our platforms, NEVER to do a secong CTL-ALT-DEL. We push the power switch. There are several technical reasons for doing this. At power on, most of the time we will return to a happy system. IF our system is NOT happy, we make sure we do not use the choice of SAFE MODE (#3 i think on the menu) -- (we catch it before the timer expires). We select Bootlog (#2? on the menu). Usually our unhappy system will resurface as something reasonable without missing drivers and a desktop with its icons scrambled. If all looks well, we check and make sure everything is okay then we do a normal shutdown to power-off; and, a subsequent restart. *** you can also look at the bootlog to see what went wrong (i suppose it will look like a bunch of gobbly-d #$%! the first several time until you begin to spot the patterns of change and things that are static): it is in your boot root (usually c:\) and it is hidden; so, just do an attrib command to find the correct and complete name then do an xcopy with i believe a /h option and copy it to a text file you can look at with notepad or a command that looks like type bootlog.txt | more. happy debugging!
I've seen a reqest for getting an address list from a WP (works i think) into PM. *** first, if you have PM 4 GD then go to the user's manual and look at the bottom of page 83 and the top of page 84. *** now you have an idea of what needs to be done. *** you can create the file in a WP or using notepad -- anything that will create a text file. *** BTW, the WP is the hard way to do it cause you have to generally type all of those quotes and commas -- unless your are using word and the mail merge facility. *** in works, once you have created the information in the spread sheet, or the database, you need to do a SAVE AS (it is important to do the SAVE AS not SAVE) which will allow you to select text and then choose between comma delimited or tab delimited fields in the output file. *** i believe if done in the correct sequence (subjective) works will change the file type from wdb (and whatever it is for the spread sheet) to .txt. if it doesn't, you can change it -- JUST make sure you have a different name so you DO NOT clobber your source file!!!! *** now once you believe you have properly created you PM import file, test this theory: 1. shell to dos and use this command: TYPE file.TXT; or, 2. in windows mouse notepad and open file.TXT. *** BTW, file.TXT is the one that you exported as a comma or TAB delimited. *** If it looks like pg 84 import into PM. and now you should have your address list for as many names as you choose. BTW, the output from a WP can also be changed to text with a save as; however, it is your responsiblity to make sure you have the correct sets of quotes and enough separators of either TAB or comma (,). *** Finally, i do NOT recall seeing a facility for IMPORT with APPEND or a MERGE selection in PM. So, should you update in your WP, remember to update only there (same rule for update in PM) from now on so you will continue to have all of your addressees and only ONE list!!!! Oh, if the export does not look like the top of pg 84 there is obviously then an incorrect procedure (of course, my instructions have crystal clarity; and, are so easily understood <;). hope this gives an assist to whomever made the "ask!". Jim
Hi....Can anyone tell me if I can print out a selected category?? If I select a keyword, as "golf", can I just print out the 89 graphics that are in that category??? Thanks Don
Don I told you someone was working on it ......With the art screen up push _F-1_ a screen called RESOURCES USING ART GALLERY comes up. SCROLL to the bottom and click on Advanced Features and lo and behold it can be done. Glenn
A while back, I asked about this error received while attempting to load PMGD v4: Can't open the @@G program manager group. Installation not successful. ** The solution is: change to the directory --> install <-- on the cd and execute init32.exe (thanks to the tech people) ** It seems the package i received does not distinguish between the 16 and 32 bit versions and attempts to load the 16 bit version (mostly?). i'm not sure what havoc awaits me in the w95 registry (that will be another day of cleanup -- maybe) as a result of this fo-paw. ** the cd-rom i have is labeled 40dx21. ** if you are having bizarre things happen AND you have a 32 bit system you may have the 16 bit package and some of the 32 bit package. it this makes no sense to you, then it is probably best to leave well enough alone (unless you are desperate). ** BTW, i would uninstall first before taking this leap of faith to leave as few legacy pieces floating around the innards of you system. jim
Hi Everyone, Here is something I discovered that may be helpful to many of us. After stretching our margins to the max according to the "MarginStyle=0" formula we still may have a wide margin at the top of a 1/4 fold card (doesn't happen in the 1/2 fold card). I've found that you can stretch your graphics 1/2" beyond the top border and it will print to the top edge of the card with nothing cropped or missing. Wow! - Brooks