OCAD help please

[Wendles]

Can anyone help by telling me how you export control descriptions by themselves from OCAD?
Thankyou in anticipation.

[Spookster]

I'm not sure that there is a way - but if you just want the descriptions, zoom in on them, use windows print screen, cut the image in Paint, and paste it wherever you want it...

[Mr Chips]

A couple of years ago I produced control descriptions as follows: I copied & pasted the description grid from the OCAD map into a fresh OCAD map document then saved as JPEG at 300dpi - I opened this in PaintShop Pro and used "colour-adjust-threshold" to change it to black and white, then saved as JPEG again. Finally I inserted the JPEG into a Word document. There are probably better ways, but this seemed to be satisfactory.

[Nails]

yep you can do this- Firstly i'll assume your using the course setting option for your descriptions. Use symbol 720.0 the top left of description symbol, pull this symbol away from your template so it doesn't interfere. If you click the preview button then you get a set of descriptions. It's now possible to select the descriptions as vectors. Drag and Copy. Select File> New> Normal Map> Orienteering Map. You can now paste the vectors into a separate ocad file. These can then be easily printed from here or file> Export for jpg, gif, illustrator, tiff, bmp to create an image.

Spooksters print screen method is by far the quickest if it's just a low key even where resolution is not so important

-mr chips beat me to it!

[NeilC]

If you're looking to produce descriptions for the web I use a print to pdf driver. I think you can get free ones if you don't have Acrobat. Then simply file > print control descriptions and select the pdf file as your printer.

Simple, good resolution and not purple.

[gross2006]

Or you could be even more complicated and just go to file then print control descriptions

[stodge]

Agree with neil c.
Print them one at a time or in groups from the
File - print control descriptions menu to a PDF printer

make sure you choose an appropriate resolution-
96 - 150 dpi is good for the web
300 dpi for print

I use "Amyuni PDF Converter"
http://www.amyuni.com/en/products/pdf_converter/index.html

but there are plenty of free ones around - see
http://www.download.com/3120-20_4-0.html?tag=srch&nid=1&qt=pdf&tg=dl-20&search.x=21&search.y=10

[Becks]

Gross - they need to email them seperately to someone. My mum may not be an OCAD specialist but she's certainly no computer dunce!

[Wendles]

Thankyou for all the help. We are experimenting with all the suggestions!