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jxProject 2.7.1.2 – Printing/Imaging

User Documentation

June 19, 2012

Printing/Imaging: The interface for printing or writing out html and images is largely the same. When printing you must choose from an available selection of installed printers and paper sizes, but when writing out html/images, you are free to select whatever image size you desire. You can switch between HTML and Print mode using the pull-down menu on the lower tool bar.

Printing Mode:

When you elect to print, you are always brought to a print preview window looking similar to the one below.

Content Scale: This allows you to change the amount of scaling of the table/chart across the pages.  A larger content scale will spread the table/chart across more of the existing pages or onto additional pages if space is needed.  A smaller scale will shrink the table/chart onto fewer pages.  You could take a large project plan and shrink it down to the size of a postage stamp if you wanted.  A scale of 0.60 is a good scale for maximum content on the minimum number of pages while maintaining readability.

Zoom Scale: This zoom scale allows you zoom in or out on the page.  Increasing zoom scale magnifies the view on the computer screen.

Print…:  This will start the actual printing to your default printer.  A progress bar will be displayed during the printing to keep you informed of the print progress.

Close: This will close out the print preview and take you back to the Gantt or Schedule view from which you came.

Printer Select...:  This brings up a dialog which allows you to select printer a printer. (Note: Graphic needs updating)

Paper Select...:  This brings up a dialog which allows you to select the paper to use for printing.  Note: although this dialog usually has a button which allows printer selection, it usually does not work. There is a bug logged with Oracle regarding this problem but there is no date given as to when it will be corrected. Use the “Printer Select...” button to select a different printer. (Note: Graphic needs updating)

HTML Mode:

In order to post project plans on the web or to produce images that can be incorporated into other electronic documents, you would want to use this feature. The HTML mode of the print preview allows you to write out the project plan as a combination of HTML and image files. You can then post the html/images to the web as is, or in a modified form. If you just want to use the images, you can discard the html. The image files produced will be named similarly to html file name that you specify when saving. Example: projectPlan.html would have associated image files: projectPlan _01.jpeg, projectPlan _02.jpeg, projectPlan _02.jpeg...

Save As...:  This will bring up a file save dialog with a default file name which is the same as the project file name with an html extension. When you say “OK” to that dialog, jxProject will write out an html file along with several image files of the type which you specified in the Image Setup dialog. If open this html file in your web browser, you will see the simple web page and your images arranged much like they are here in the print preview.

Close: This will close out the print preview and take you back to the Gantt or Schedule view from which you came.

Image Setup...:  This dialog allows you set parameters associated with producing the images that are saved along with the html.

• Input (width/height): The width and height of the entire image. Note: The width/height measurements do not include the headers and footers of the images and do not account for page break spacing where the images are divided along row and column boundaries.

• Type: This is the type of image to be produced. The available image types will be determined by your platform and the JVM vendor. On the Windows platform using the Oracle JVM, the jpeg and png formats are available. Note: The png format is very efficient, it produces images which occupy less space and are clearer than jpeg images. Although support for the png format is good among the technology industry, it is not as widely supported as jpeg.

• Border: A pixel measurement as to the amount of white space to place around each image.

• Width: The width of each image in pixels. Note: Associated inch and cm measurements are based on 72 dpi.

• Height: The height of each image in pixels. Note: Associated inch and cm measurements are based on 72 dpi.

• Set As Defaults: This will store the current image settings as default values in your user profile. The next time you initiate an HTML/output image session, you saved default values will be utilized.

• Restore Defaults: This will retrieve the image values from your profile that you last saved as default values and load them into the dialog.

• OK, Apply, Cancel: In order for changes in the dialog values to be applied to the “print preview” representation, you must Apply or OK the changes. Cancel will dismiss the dialog without applying the changes.

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