WebXealot #30 Bitmaps Part I

[gwpriester]

Ran out of time. Bitmaps Part II will continue next month.

XaraXone WebXealot #30

In the XaraXone Shareware Page a FREE, printable PowerPoint Finance template courtesy of Steve Knight and Power2Present.com a company that used Xara to create PowerPoint templates.

If you have not seen Alan Burns images in Featured Artist page what are you waiting for. Alan's work is nothing short of exceptional.

Risto Klint's Guest Tutorial #8 is informative as well as an insight into how this talented Canadian works.

All this and more in the XaraXone Check it out. It's absolutely free, thanks to our friends at Xara Ltd.

Gary

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[gwpriester]

Ran out of time. Bitmaps Part II will continue next month.

XaraXone WebXealot #30

In the XaraXone Shareware Page a FREE, printable PowerPoint Finance template courtesy of Steve Knight and Power2Present.com a company that used Xara to create PowerPoint templates.

If you have not seen Alan Burns images in Featured Artist page what are you waiting for. Alan's work is nothing short of exceptional.

Risto Klint's Guest Tutorial #8 is informative as well as an insight into how this talented Canadian works.

All this and more in the XaraXone Check it out. It's absolutely free, thanks to our friends at Xara Ltd.

Gary

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[pduggan]

Hope you got my response form, Gary!

Peter</p>

Peat Stack or Pete's Tack?</p>

PS In case anyone's wondering what I'm doing up at this time of the (British) night, I'm on holiday...

[gwpriester]

Yes Peter, I received your comments.

Pete has pointed out some glaring errors in this month's WebXealot which I will address later today.

Thanks for the heads up, Peter.

Gary

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[gwpriester]

Most of Peter's observations delt with my confusing PNG with JPEG. I have corrected my errors and posted new on-line and download versions.

I apologize for the sloppy editing and thank Peter for his help.

Peter also requests some of you visitors who post very large images to be sure to read Page 3 of the WebXealot

Maybe we should urge them to save their images as PNG files [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img]. Just kidding.

Gary

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[Mickie]

as always. There is always something that I didn't know, or that finally sunk in!

I'm curious if anyone knows how or why the convention of placing the (0,0) coordinate in the lower left began. Seems to me that upper left is much more logical. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_confused.gif[/img]

Mickie

[Jackie]

I believe that to understand why the origin would be placed at lower left, you'd have to visualize the entire coordinates - a cross, with the origin at the centre. The positive Y coordinates are above the line, while the positive X coordinates run to the right.

Y (+)
X (-) X (+)
Y (-)

So, when we place the origin at the lower left, we are looking at the only quadrant where both the X and Y values are positive. Much less confusing than putting it at the top left, where all the Y coordinates would be expressed as negative numbers.

At least, that's my theory and I'm sticking to it. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]

[roman]

Thumbs up.

[Mickie]

Jackie, so they didn't want to have to deal with any negatives...I certainly understand that!

Mickie

[gwpriester]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> At least, that's my theory and I'm sticking to it. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

As well you might Jackie. Sounds convincing to me.

Gary

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