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Reports

Reports

i2Brain generates reports in various formats.

Printing

i2Brain can also print what is shown in your view: call "File | Print preview..." while the relevant view is active.

Only the active view is printed. More specifically, only the visible part of the active view is printed.

Use

Your first step is to zoom and resize the view so that what it shows is what you want to print.

Then you click "File | Print preview..." in the menu.

The 3 upper-most control elements are self-explanatory. 

"Scale on paper" allows you to "zoom" this preview so that the pages are divided up as you wish.

So you can

click the little arrows to the right of the control (in this screenshot to the right of the number "90") or

click on the number, then use the cursor-up or cursor-down keys to change the number, or

click on the number, edit it and press ENTER.

When you have adjusted the preview to your requirements, click "Print..." to get the standard printer-dialog.

 

Generating a JPG file

i2Brain also produces .JPG files -  the visible part of the view is written to your hard-disk. If you project contains one or more aspects which are defined so that they call external programs, an HTML-"map"-file is also written.

The graphics on the home-page of these help-texts and at the start of the user's manual were created this way.

Use

Scroll, zoom and resize the view so that exactly what you want in the JPG is visible in the view, then call "View | Create JPG-file...". Give the file's name the ending ".jpg".

Generating an HTML map

This is a special function for users wishing to place an i2Brain "screenshot" on their website so that item are hyperlinks. 

The HTML map is written to a file with the same name as the JPG file, except that it has the extra extension ".map", so "q1.jpg" has the partner file "q1.jpg.map". It contains something of this form:

<img src="C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\JohnDev\Eigene Dateien\dev\Java\i2Brain\q1.jpg" usemap="#pagemap" alt="altTitle">
<map name="pagemap">
<area alt="Name des 1. Elements" href="file://c:\blub.txt" coords="502, -33, 721, 152" shape="rect">
<area alt="Name of the 2nd item" href="file:C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\JohnDev\Eigene Dateien\dev\Java\i2Brain\qqq.jpg" coords="292, 333, 348, 363" shape="rect">
</map>

You might have to edit this file manually before including it in your own HTML file. However, the coordinates are exact. 

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