Banners are used to apply your own organizations graphic image when printing output from Room Estimator, Roadway Optimizer ,Print-Text and the Luminaire Define dialog More button, Type C and B dialogs. The image may be created in any graphics program that can save bitmap formats PNG, JPG or BMP. The image will always maintain its original aspect ratio (the ratio of width to height) and will be scaled accordingly to fit within the confines of the banner space.
Banners have a maximum size of 1.25 x 6 (31.75mm x 165.1mm) and are always placed at the very beginning (top) of every page of the printed output.
- From the File menu choose Banner.
- Import the banner in one of two ways:
- To import a saved graphics file, click on the Import button. You will be presented with the 'Select Image File' dialog in order to browse for the graphics file. Select the file and click Ok to bring it into the Banner dialog.
- You may paste a bitmap image directly into the Banner dialog from the Windows™ clipboard. First, left click in the banner section where an existing image is located (or in the blank space if empty). Then, right click to display the pop up menu and select Paste. Alternately, instead of selecting Paste from the pop up menu, you may press the CTRL+V keys (at the same time) on your keyboard to paste the image in.
- You may preview the printed banner exactly as it will appear by clicking on the Print button. The banner will be sent automatically to your default Windows system printer.
- Click Ok to save the current image as your Banner image.
Print Quality
Inspect the print quality of your banner by printing it. Click on the Print button to send the Banner image to your default printer. If your selected image is larger than the 1.25" x 6" size allowed, then AGi32 will compress the image to fit the maximum size while maintaining the image's aspect ratio (e.g. image will not be distorted or skewed). This generally results in acceptable quality. You may use a graphics program to "resample" the image as required if cropping or non-uniform sampling is desired. This may preserve better detail in your image.
Note: Typical screen resolutions range from 72 dpi to 96 dpi. At 72 dpi, 1.25" x 6" corresponds to 90 x 432 pixels.