how to show the size of a vector rectangle
Holger Schmidt
also how can i draw one with a defined size?
Holger
Bob Dietz
> how can i see the actual size of a vector rectangle?
While you're creating the vector rectangle the pixel size will
appear in the status bar.
(start coordinates) -> ( current coordinates) = (width x height) (aspect ratio)
After you've already created a vector rectangle, you must jump through
hoops to find the size.
Selections> From Vector Object
Double click the Selection Tool.
Enable 'Surrond current selection' and click OK.
Double click the Selection Tool again and note the current size
displayed just below the left, right, top and bottom inputs.
> also how can i draw one with a defined size?
You can use grids and/or guides to aid you in creating rectangles with
specific dimensions. Look at -
View> Change Grid and Guide Properties...>
Bob
Ronald Vick
Schmidt) wrote:
>how can i see the actual size of a vector rectangle?
Set the zoom to 1:1.
>
>also how can i draw one with a defined size?
If you mean as in entering numerical values for the size, it's just
not possible. There are work-arounds to achieve that, such as double
clicking on the Selection tool and entering the size you want. Do a
fill. This gives a defined size raster rectangle, and you can then
create a vector rectangle to match.
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A Soberon
Another work around:
Open a new image: FILE ---> NEW
Make it as big as the rectangle you need and then draw your rectangle
occupying all of the canvas size.
Copy it and paste into your final image.
Antonio
Holger Schmidt
I guess its no use complaining about these "features".
Uhhh I needed about 5 trys to see the size of a selected rectangle ...
Why is it so complicated, instead of just showing the size in the
status bar like when i create the rectangle. Resizing would be a lot
more easy that way.
How else could i resize it to a defined new size?
And there is nothing I can say about creating a rectangle with a
defined size. Its just the usual way go when i would create a 640x480
rectangle in my image ;)
Holger
Bob Dietz
> Thanks a lot, that solved my problems.
>
> I guess its no use complaining about these "features".
It does no good to complain to me, I'm just another user like yourself.
If you want to see PSP's behavior modified or new features added the
correct place to ask for those changes/features is pspi...@jasc.com
There are a few JASC employees that participate in this news group,
and if you air some idea of mind numbing brilliance that no one has
previously thought of, maybe one of them will take it to heart and
crusade for it. It's much better to write to the address I gave you
above. Then you become one more voice asking for the a specific
improvement.
> Uhhh I needed about 5 trys to see the size of a selected rectangle ...
>
> Why is it so complicated, instead of just showing the size in the
> status bar like when i create the rectangle. Resizing would be a lot
> more easy that way.
The width and height in the status bar reflect the size of the bounding
box for the vector object. Try drawing some ellipse and star shaped
objects and look at the numbers.
When you're drawing any preset shape, PSP only 'understands' that it is
scaling some particular vector path. It has no 'understanding' that
paths which contain just four node points - each of which defines a
90 degree change in the path at that point - can be recognized as
rectangles.
> How else could i resize it to a defined new size?
>
> And there is nothing I can say about creating a rectangle with a
> defined size. Its just the usual way go when i would create a 640x480
> rectangle in my image ;)
>
>
>
> Holger
Look at Ronald Vick's and Antonio Soberon's suggested work arounds.
Bob
Holger Schmidt
> Holger Schmidt wrote:
> > Thanks a lot, that solved my problems.
> >
> > I guess its no use complaining about these "features".
>
> It does no good to complain to me, I'm just another user like yourself.
> If you want to see PSP's behavior modified or new features added the
> correct place to ask for those changes/features is pspi...@jasc.com
That was general rant against a omnipotent software company that has
not thought about what i think of a most basic feature.
Holger
Steve-A
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Holger,
No offense meant, but JASC isn't in the habit of reading people's
minds, you have to let them know what you would like to see in the next
version. I'm not too sure that JASC would like to be known as
"omnipotent" either.
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don't respond to this e-mail address, it doesn't work.
Sally Beacham
"Holger Schmidt" <holger....@pruftechnik.com> wrote in message
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"omnipotent software company"?
You've been given a very good suggestion by a very bright guy who has
made several feature requests himself to that "omnipotent software company."
You seem to be ranting prior to requesting, nonetheless, I'd just like to
clarify - do you expect new versions to be ground out upon demand by
yourself? Doesn't it make more sense that the feature requests of a great
number of users would be considered, and if POSSIBLE, implemented in a new
version? Otherwise, I hope you have very deep pockets to subsidize the
development of your personalized software application.
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Kris Zaklika
>
> "Holger Schmidt" <holger....@pruftechnik.com> wrote in message
> news:b384625f.02110...@posting.google.com...
> > Bob Dietz <rbdiet...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:<3DC98B3D...@yahoo.com>...
> > > Holger Schmidt wrote:
> > > > Thanks a lot, that solved my problems.
> > > >
> > > > I guess its no use complaining about these "features".
> > >
> > > It does no good to complain to me, I'm just another user like yourself.
> > > If you want to see PSP's behavior modified or new features added the
> > > correct place to ask for those changes/features is pspi...@jasc.com
> >
> > Sorry, i didn't meean to attack you.
> >
> > That was general rant against a omnipotent software company that has
> > not thought about what i think of a most basic feature.
>
> "omnipotent software company"?
Try these omnipotence stakes on for size :)
Microsoft
Employees 50,500
Last quarter revenues $7.75 billion
Adobe Systems
Employees 3,029
Last quarter revenues $284.9 million
Jasc Software
Employees 100
Privately held company - no revenue announcements.
Minnesota Technology Inc. ranks Jasc's ANNUAL sales
in the $25 million to $49 million range.
http://www.minnesotatechnology.org/directories/directory/viewProfile.asp?Company=7062
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Uni
>
> Holger Schmidt wrote:
> > Thanks a lot, that solved my problems.
> >
> > I guess its no use complaining about these "features".
>
> It does no good to complain to me, I'm just another user like yourself.
> If you want to see PSP's behavior modified or new features added the
> correct place to ask for those changes/features is pspi...@jasc.com
All the wish list suggestions, here, I've seen requested, ended up in
After Shot.
If a software company is concerned with what people want, they'll record
it down, even if the request is posted in a usenet newsgroup.
Uni
Uni
Would you happen to know if Microsoft and Adobe donates T-shirts, with
their name/logo on them, to LVS Online?
Uni
Uni
However, if you live in a fantasy world, you'll believe ideas of yours
will be incorporated into software, because you transmitted your idea(s)
via e-mail. It's not what you want, it's what software competitors
offer.
Uni
>
> Uni
A Soberon
> It's not what you want, it's what software competitors offer.
Like Adobe copying (and very slowly at that) the Browse function of Jasc's
PSP into PS?
Antonio
Joe Fromm
"Steve-A" <lake_vu...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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<snip> I'm not too sure that JASC would like to be known as
> "omnipotent" either.
>
Hey, we'd LOVE to be known as omnipotent, I just don't think it is going to
happen.
--
Joe Fromm
Jasc Software Inc
Ron
Geez! Does this mean that we have to Genuflect when open this newsgroup? :)
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RonV
Kris Zaklika
I don't know. However, you will be required to kiss the ring
of Bill Gates and wrap yourself in PDF printout with an eye
on every page.
> --
>
> RonV
Ron
Hah! I would rather wrap myself up in printouts of that beauty in the PSP splashscreen. <g>
--
RonV
Uni
More like Layers and Masks incorporated into PSP from PS.
Uni
>
> Antonio
Holger Schmidt
> "omnipotent software company"?
>
> You've been given a very good suggestion by a very bright guy who has
> made several feature requests himself to that "omnipotent software company."
yes, and im glad i got that answer. however, you have to admit that it
is just a very ugly workaround and it was obviously never intended for
the user to see the size of a vector shape once it was drawn.
now, what is the use of vectors if you can not verify the size later
on.
Ok, this is no CAD software, but when i am given the vector shapes
then i want to play with them. Otherwise they could have been hidden
as goog as the "check size" feature.
> You seem to be ranting prior to requesting, nonetheless, I'd just like to
> clarify - do you expect new versions to be ground out upon demand by
> yourself? Doesn't it make more sense that the feature requests of a great
> number of users would be considered, and if POSSIBLE, implemented in a new
> version? Otherwise, I hope you have very deep pockets to subsidize the
> development of your personalized software application.
Actually I started ranting after googling for a solution and finding
out that I was not alone with these problems. It was just that no-one
before has questioned the "workaround answers" he got.
On the other hand I don't see what might have been so "expensive" to
show the user the same data in the satus bar when he selects a shape
as when he is creating it.
And instead of complaing to the email support directly, I see much
more benefit in writing to this newsgroup.
Because I get feedback, and the next one who is googling for the same
problem will also get the answer.
And best of all, the people from JASC will not only see my complain,
but also what other users think about this problem.
Holger
Mark Henri
to
> happen.
No you don't. If so, you'll have to contend with a plethora of pip-squeaks
whose only way of dealing with their inadequacies is to attack the biggest
windmill they can find.
Mark Henri
Kris Zaklika
[snip]
> Actually I started ranting after googling for a solution and finding
> out that I was not alone with these problems. It was just that no-one
> before has questioned the "workaround answers" he got.
>
> On the other hand I don't see what might have been so "expensive" to
> show the user the same data in the satus bar when he selects a shape
> as when he is creating it.
>
> And instead of complaing to the email support directly, I see much
> more benefit in writing to this newsgroup.
> Because I get feedback, and the next one who is googling for the same
> problem will also get the answer.
> And best of all, the people from JASC will not only see my complain,
> but also what other users think about this problem.
Yes, that's all very well. However, you have never explained
WHY you want to make shapes a specific size. Knowing would be
much more useful to me, for instance, than just a complaint
about the lack of a specific feature (not that I mind complaints).
It is possible that future versions of PSP could have a much
more general solution to your problem than the one you suggest,
but that requires understanding the problem first and what
you are trying to achieve and why.
> Holger
Sally Beacham
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pip-squeaks - I like that. It's sooooo... dimunitive.
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