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Front End Support => MaLa Frontend => Topic started by: harveybirdman on November 25, 2011, 10:31:44 am

Title: Is there a way to easily size snaps/marquees etc?
Post by: harveybirdman on November 25, 2011, 10:31:44 am

Working on my custom layout and one thing that is driving me crazy is that some snaps and marquees aren't taking up the allotted space I have for them in my layout.

Is there an easy way to force this, without having to go in and size every singe snap and marquee identically?

Title: Re: Is there a way to easily size snaps/marquees etc?
Post by: TopJimmyCooks on November 25, 2011, 11:07:16 am

you can batch resize with adobe photoshop or a similar program.  Mala doesn't have any way to resize images on the fly.

Title: Re: Is there a way to easily size snaps/marquees etc?
Post by: harveybirdman on November 25, 2011, 11:12:04 am

Thanks man,  I'll look up some stuff on batch resizing.

Title: Re: Is there a way to easily size snaps/marquees etc?
Post by: Celsius on November 25, 2011, 11:29:43 am

there is a stretch option in mala to fit images...but it stretches everything, so if you're using an info window,all marquees/cab/snap images will have the same size...for example if you select a square area for you're info window...a square snap isn't a prob, but marquees :s

Title: Re: Is there a way to easily size snaps/marquees etc?
Post by: harveybirdman on November 25, 2011, 11:39:20 am

I might play with that option Celsius, but somehow I feel like I'm going to end up infront of image editing software for a long, long time, but that's okay I can finally fix all the snaps that Fusion takes to gid rid of the black margins and give all my snaps true transparency.

Now all I have to figure out is how I'm going to get my wife to let me spend the hours its going to take to accomplish all this! 

Title: Re: Is there a way to easily size snaps/marquees etc?
Post by: harveybirdman on November 26, 2011, 12:43:02 am

Just an FYI i downloaded this program to batch resize and it worked pretty well..  although in XP I swore there was an option to do this in windows without software... To bad at home I have vista and it sucks.  Nevertheless this worked just fine.

http://download.cnet.com/windows/3055-12511_4-10297789.html?tag=pdl-red (http://download.cnet.com/windows/3055-12511_4-10297789.html?tag=pdl-red)

Since every marquee from progettosnaps is already 500 pixels wide for the most part I thought to minimize distortion I would go with 500 x 150.  So far I'm satisfied with the results.  Now if I can just get a layout I'm satisfied with to hold them I'll be in business.