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What is the best way to insert A logo into a drawing?

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By Coop - 1/2/2008 7:10:37 AM

Hi,



I'm playing round w the demo of stardraw and am trying to insert a logo so it prints nicely at A3 and above. I have and eps version of the logo and the best thing I can see is to insert an object in pdf format. Is this the best way to go about it?



The drawing is a pictorial w a title border that is exactly A3 size (420mm x 297mm) and the logo should fit in an object 65 x 35mm.

Any help would be great, thanks.
By Rob Robinson - 1/2/2008 8:29:13 AM

Thanks for your post.  Yes, you could use PDF, or indeed any filetype that is supported on your machine - use of objects in Stardraw varies from machine to machine depending on what applications you have installed locally, and what filetypes are associated with which application.  The key consideration is whether the associated application supports Object Linking and Embedding (OLE).

As a basic recommendation I would normally choose the simplest route possible, for example save the logo as an image (e.g. .BMP format) ensuring that the extension is associated with MSPaint.  Often .BMP, .JPG etc are associated with Windows Picture and Fax Viewer which is not OLE-compliant - you can tell when the association is with a non-OLE application as the object is diplayed in your Stardraw document as an icon instead of the actual picture.

I hope this is helpful

By Greg - 8/6/2008 3:35:28 PM

Hi,

I've read through this a few times and still I can't seem to be able to get a logo into stardraw.

I've used paint in .tiff .giff formats and still all I get is a box with the file name written in it.

I've even tried Photoshop .eps as well.

When I drag the saved image into word of excell it displays just fine???

Any help would be great.

Many thanks

Greg
By Rob Robinson - 8/6/2008 4:04:12 PM

Hi Greg,

Out of interest, what application opens when you doubleclick on one of these image files in Windows Explorer?

To display an image (or any file for that matter) in a Stardraw document, the file type must be associated with an OLE-compatible application.  MSPaint is such an application: it supports JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG and their variant extensions (.JPG, .JPEG etc) and it ships with Windows so you should be able to find it on your machine; the default path is C:\WINDOWS\system32\mspaint.exe.

For details on file format association see http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/307859 

I hope this is helpful.

By Greg - 8/7/2008 2:54:01 AM

Hi Rob,

In windows explorer it does indeed open with MS Paint...

I follow the link and see if I can gleam a little more info.

Seems to me that it must be something with my machine??

Very confusing!

Many thanks for the speedy reply.

Greg
By Martin Staehle - 8/7/2008 3:10:02 AM

hello Greg,



you are talking about that you used a Adobe EPS file, so therefore I guess you got a vector based logo. I suggest instead of using OLE simply safe this EPS file to a DWG or DXF (that can be usually done by Adobe InDesign). Then you are able to import that logo into Stardraw A/V and you are also able to scale it to every size you want, without using quality.
By Greg - 8/8/2008 4:22:42 AM

Thanks for the response..

I will contact my Graphic Designer and get him to convert the fils.

Thank you

Greg