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- Hints and Tips
- 5.4
- • A5000 monitor problem − One problem which various people seem to have
- had with the Acorn A5000 monitors is intermittent contact on the mains
- cable but the solution is simple. When you plug the power cable into the
- monitor, it seems to go in but actually, to get it fully home, you have
- to push it very firmly.
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- • Draw files in Impression − Did you know that when using Draw files in
- Impression frames, it is possible to “zoom” in on a part you want to
- concentrate on and bring it up to “fill the frame”? This means you can,
- for example, call up a file of, say, a fruit filled bowl and then choose
- the apple to fill the space available in your document or show a group
- of cartoon figures and, in the next frame, have a “close up” of one
- face. Since Draw files are capable of incredible scaling, their should
- be no real loss of detail involved.
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- The procedure is simple. Create a frame for the draw file. Open the
- directory containing the Draw file. Drag it into the frame in the usual
- way. Changing the shape of the frame with its handles using <select>
- will “crop” the picture until only the part you require is visible. Then
- enlarge the frame using the adjust button on the corner handles. The
- cropped picture will “grow” with your mouse movements. (Well, stone me!
- I didn’t know that! Please keep sending these “obvious” hints − they are
- not obvious to everyone. Ed.)
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- Incidentally, don’t try moving a frame containing a Draw file around the
- page using the usual method of pointing inside it, holding down <select>
- and waiting for the blue lines to appear. If you don’t wait quite long
- enough, the graphic moves inside the frame and bang goes your careful
- alignment! Instead, hold down <ctrl> when you press <select> and the
- frame can be moved safely and immediately. Kevin Beales, Shropshire.
- (The latter hint was also sent in by Johannes Thordarson of Ice
- land.) A
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