help with insets

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2 total messages Started by Brian Keck Tue, 17 Nov 1992 12:17

#1771

Author: Brian Keck
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 12:17

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I'm a beginner at ez, zip, et al, & have got stuck.
I'm trying to insert (zip inset) a picture in a text file (ez).
It basically works, but I get too much white space.
I'm hoping someone can tell me how to avoid it.

Detail:  
  "ez fred", where fred is a plain text file.
  caret moved to a random place
  esc tab
  "zip"
  plug in the November calendar
  browse
  the calendar is OK, but there's 2 or 3 times its height
    of white space below it

Scaling is no good because it changes the size of the calendar.
The white space seems impervious to ez.
I've tried changing zip.geometry.
Any general tips/pointers on method welcome.

Thanks,
Brian Keck

b.keck@trl.oz.au, phone +61 3 253 6407, fax +61 3 253 6362 
Network Services & Signalling, Telecom Research Laboratories
770 Blackburn Rd, Clayton Victoria 3168, Australia

Re: help with insets

#1782

Author: Robert Andrew Ryan
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:22

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Excerpts from netnews.comp.soft-sys.andrew: 17-Nov-92 help with insets
Brian Keck@castor.trl.OZ (828)

> I'm a beginner at ez, zip, et al, & have got stuck.
> I'm trying to insert (zip inset) a picture in a text file (ez).
> It basically works, but I get too much white space.
> I'm hoping someone can tell me how to avoid it.

Unfortunately zip is not really designed for what most people want it
for...  It's primarily a hierarchical drawing editor/viewer.  (Basically
meaning that it lets you make/look at a drawing at various levels of
detail.)

To avoid the whitespace there are two things you must do.  First , make
the drawing occupy the entire visible space of the zip while the
composition tools are in place.  Second, resize the inset in browse mode
until you are satisfied.  (The month object apparently wants to be
square(?))

Hope this helps,
-Rob Ryan
Andrew Consortium

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