[kepler-dev] Kepler screenshots

[Norbert Podhorszki]

Hi Dan,

Thanks for the print trick.
I am not sure how can I include that into powerpoint, but in latex and 
openoffice docs this will serve well.

The first part of my question still holds: magnifying the text to 
make it readable on screenshots.

Norbert

On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Dan Higgins wrote:

> Hi Norbert,
>   I don't know how to make actor titles or port lables larger with respect 
> to the icons. You can of course 'zoom' the entire workflow and annotation 
> text can be sized.
>
>   There is a way to scale an entire workflow for presentations and journals, 
> and that is to use 'Print...' The workflow is drawn by Kepler using vector 
> graphics, so it is drawn to the size of the printer. If you have Adobe 
> Acrobat, you can 'Print' to a PDF file and set the native size of that PDF 
> for something like a large poster format. Or just print a PDF to ordinary 
> paper size; the workflow image is still scalable.
>
> Dan Higgins
> NCEAS
>
> Norbert Podhorszki wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> A user has just asked me, after providing him with a breathtaking 
>> screenshot of his workflow (yes, he never saw it before, just used it :-),
>> whether I can make the Actor titles (and Port titles) any bigger.
>> He puts it into his SC06 presentation, where he explains how Kepler makes 
>> impossible things possible for him...
>> 
>> Is there any hidden parameter of the workflow that controls the font sizes?
>> 
>> More generally, after making about the one hundredth screenshot in my short 
>> keplerlife, I would like to make scalable graphics instead of PNG in the 
>> future. They can be scaled better in presentations and publications.
>> Do you know a way to do this? Could Kepler save its screen into PS/SVG/WMF?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Norbert
>>
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      Norbert Podhorszki
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      University of California, Davis
      Department of Computer Science
      1 Shields Ave, 2236 Kemper Hall
      Davis, CA 95616
      (530) 754-8188
      pnorbert at cs.ucdavis.edu
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