[AccessD] More Word/graphics OT

...PSP X is well capable of doing everything you need Jurgen ...Corel just 
bought out Jasc and have not managed to screw it up as yet ...I use it all 
the time for just such tasks ...but not even Adobe Photo Shop or Illustrator 
will do what you want when you start with a raster version of the logo 
...wmf is not a pure vector format and converted rasters rarely transform 
successfully into vectorized wmfs in my experience ...I'd redo the logo from 
scratch in PSP as a vector image using PSP's native format rather than wmf 
...then export it as a wmf ...actually the emf format is a much better 
platform imnsho for native vector images and I much prefer it over wmf.

...I had to do this for a client a few months ago and had both PSP and Adobe 
CS2 available...we had a 3rd party graphics shop redo the logo in PSP's 
native format (.pspimage) and I retained that as the master ...PSP readily 
exported it as a vector emf and it resizes in Access and Word just as it 
should without any of the distortions native to resized raster images.

...hth

William
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J?rgen Welz" <jwelz at hotmail.com>
To: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 6:02 PM
Subject: [AccessD] More Word/graphics OT


> I've got my graphic logos going into document body and headers and tables 
> in
> multiple kinds of footers with good control of size and placement.
>
> I've also tried a WMF capable graphics program, to wit, Corel's Paint Shop
> Pro X.  After cleaning up the TIF files (letters vary in height by 2 or 3
> pixels in 150 and don't line up on bottoms) and converting to 2 color 
> (logos
> are two color, but the graphic has 85 interpolated 'smoothed' colors at 
> some
> edges, of course on curves, but also on straight horizontal lines) before
> converting back to 16 bit and then filling with our target color, the WMF
> file save menu offers the option of saving with or without vector data.  I
> was hoping for purely vector data.  The resulting files were over 90% of 
> the
> size of the TIF originals; huge.  Resizing down to the 1700 bytes of our
> current WMF's left them as blurry vague messes.  The existing WMFs are far
> superior, though not adequte in my opinion, and slightly off color.
>
> Clearly I need a better Graphics program.  I believe I have an old copy of
> Corel 4 kicking around, but I'm not sure whether it will support a vector
> format I can use in my forms/reports/documents.
>
> I had a look at a downloadable Font editor program and the trial version
> does a nice job of converting a graphic file to a pure vector scalable 
> font,
> though I haven't figured out the kerning well enough to do an accurate
> facsimiile of the required logo, I can duplicate the characters exactly.
> There is also a stylized black line that looks a bit like the Nike 'Swoop'
> that becomes a purely horizontal line below the primary corporate names. 
> I
> believe I can make the start of the swoop by converting a left paranthesis
> character with a fair bit of descender and tie into a horizontal line or
> running into a line of '_' characters set to display at the top of the 
> line
> below (by moving the line to the top of the font).  By Italicizing or
> setting enough kerning, I can get the top of the 'Swoop' over the first
> character as required (all logo text has about a 7 degree italic slope).
>
> This should get me a 'graphic' file size of a few dozen bytes rather than
> the multiple K file sizes we now have for logos.  Does anyone know whether
> emailed PDF conversions will keep the logo intact for systems that do not
> have the custom font I am considering?  Does a copy of the font get sent
> with the file?  I really only need to define a maximum of 8 characters for
> the current companies.  (Divisions have a 50% Grey Arial Italic Bold font
> added after one of the primary Logo company and some have 'A Joint 
> Venture'
> starting from the end of the 'Swoop'.  Those variations of the main logos
> can all simply be set up by adding text of the Arial font and perhaps
> overlaying a transparent text box to fine tune the height of the added 'A
> Joint Venture', or perhaps revising a font to be samll enough, yet in the
> upper portion of the character space.
>
> Anyone with some suggestions?  Other options?
>
> Ciao
> Jürgen Welz
> Edmonton, Alberta
> jwelz at hotmail.com
>
>
>


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