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I am trying to think of a way to get an animation of where we went to use as part of our blog - well really because I know I will forget where we have been.
I have it plotted in Autoroute and thought to delete the last place each time I saved the map and then put them all into a GIF animation.
The problem is that Autoroute will only print a .PRN to file and I can't find anything that will read that and be able to save it as a GIF.
Also, I need each frame to be the same size of map and Autoroute always zooms to include the current route.
Anybody know how I could do this trick?
Thanks
Patrick
Couldn't you use PRTSCN to capture the screen then paste them into your chosen art package to edit as desired before compiling them as an animated .gif
EDIT: I have just tried it and it can be done but the animation will be either to big or indistiguishable when shrunken.
Is size important? If not you could create a small .avi type file with the images.
Couldn't you use PRTSCN to capture the screen then paste them into your chosen art package to edit as desired before compiling them as an animated .gif
EDIT: I have just tried it and it can be done but the animation will be either to big or indistiguishable when shrunken.
Is size important? If not you could create a small .avi type file with the images.
Hi (again)
Yes that is a possibility but if I use a selected window to capture, I will have to get rid of all the dross round the map - and I don't want to do that for about 50 frames!
If I take it from a user defined area, will I always get the same rectangle? If I don't, the result will become very jerky.
I may have to bite the bullet and use screen capture
Thanks
Patrick
I have just had a play and found a "work around" way of doing this.
a) Open the Route in Autoroute
b) Get it so the entire route is displayed in the screen as desired.
c) Capture this screen (PRTSCN) and paste it into an art package that allows a freehand copy / paste (such as PaintShop). Then just select the part of this image that you want displayed (i.e the main window not all the surrounding gubbins). As you will use this for the main part of each of the frames - this process only needs doing once, not 50 times.
d) to maintain this aspect ratio you now need to remove all the stops one at a time, then capture the screen again. Thus giving you the map with no route displayed.
e) Now this was time consuming, but, using the freehand copy tool. Select the part of the journey you need removing from the map without the route on, and then paste this into the other image. Thus pasting it over the route line.
f) Save the frame
g) Repeat step e) and f) as desired, each time removing a leg of the journey.
Basically you have two images. One with all the route on (displaying only the part of the screen capture you want). And a second image in the same zoomed size that has no route on it at all. You copy from the one with no route and paste it into the one with the route on.
Thanks for that.
Yes, I hadn't really thought about using Windows for what it is good at, had I? I am an old DOS person, after all
I shall go away and try it out.
Thanks again.
Patrick
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