Picture Commands

CurPict: This command will output the current display (either geometry or the rendered part) at the pixel sized specified (<vertical pixels> <horizontal pixels>). The reference point is in the upper left-hand corner of the Excel document; these values are independent of the cell size and location. This command is used along with the PictSize command to fully define the size of the picture and its location.

CurPict <vertical pixels> <horizontal pixels>

PartPict: This command will output the current picture of the part (geometry or solid) at the pixel size specified (<vertical pixels> <horizontal pixels>). The reference point is in the upper left-hand corner of the Excel document; these values are independent of the cell size and location. This command is used along with the PictSize command to fully define the size of the picture and its location.

PartPict <vertical pixels> <horizontal pixels>

PartRender: This command will output a picture of the current state of the rendered part at the pixel size specified (<vertical pixels> <horizontal pixels>). The reference point is in the upper left-hand corner of the Excel document; these values are independent of the cell size and location. This command is used along with the Pictsize command to fully define the size of the picture and its location.

RenderPict <vertical pixels> <horizontal pixels>

PictSize: This command specifies the size of the picture to be generated in pixels. A typical size is 30 30 for tool pictures and 400 300 for screen pictures.

PictSize <width> <height>

Working with graphics in Reporter can be challenging due to Excel's graphical capabilities. Excel does not embed graphics within a cell. Instead, it floats graphics over cells and any data in the cells. The graphic is positioned from the cell's top left-hand corner. The position is measured in pixels, and unfortunately there is no easy way to measure the number of pixels in an Excel document.

If you are using Office 2000 or higher, clicking on the boundary of a column header will display the size of the column in pixels. You can calculate the number of pixels needed for the graphic by adding up the width of the columns. The same method can be used for the height of a row

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