GenoPro Support Forum

You may also see spurious extra vertical lines, these are because of 'stray' Pedigree-Links in your GenoPro file. They seem to be a hang over from when an individual is moved to another GenoMap creating a hyperlink. The 'stray' link has the individual in one GenoMap and the family in another, which is invalid. This may be a bug in earlier releases of GenoPro that has now been fixed or may be not. Any way I've posted a revised version of my skin that gets over this problem. (see 1st post in thread).

I have also found that the problem some of us have in downloading Zip files from this forum is down to MS IE. If you get a corrupt Zip file try the Mozilla Firefox browser instead of IE. Don't you just love Mr Gates!

Update: removed reporting of pictures to log to avoid 'picture=' error messages

  Your fix worked like a charm.  Thank you very much for your help and generally, to your fantastic support in this product. 

Danny

Edited: Monday, October 31, 2005 by GenoProSupport

  Now that the file looks terrific, I would like to improve it further.  Do you know of a way to place pictures that would appear in the background, layed out in some fashion?  For example, I would like to have an entire genomap with a background of a particular picture (with 95% transparency), and several other pictures throughout the genomap (with 90% transparency) overlayed on top of the first one.

 Does this require work from Dan?  Can this be done in Genomaps of GenoPro directly, then copied to the SVG?

 In any event, I think this is the best method of displaying in a graphical and eye-pleasing format.

 Thank you once again for all your help.

Danny

Would visible scroll bars and zoom buttons like in GenoPro be possible ?

Images (GIF, JPG or PNG) can now be placed within the SVG rendering of the genomaps. For example this can be used to provide a background image or to display photos of the individuals. To achieve this, draw text labels on the GenoPro GenoMaps to act a image 'placeholders', and set the label text to picture="picnnnnn"  where 'picnnnnn' refers to the id of a picture object referenced in the GenoPro file, i.e. a picture associated with a individual , family or place.  To see a list of pictures referenced within your GenoPro file, use the 'View, Table Layout - Pictures ..' GenoPro menu option. To see picture ids, right click on a column heading, select 'Column Properties' then click the check box next to 'ID'. The text label's border fill can be used the provide a frame for the picture and the 'padding' setting can be used to control the width of the border. Note that the aspect ratio of the text label should match that of the picture.  The opacity of the inserted picture can be set by including the text opacity:0.x; where 'x' is a value 1-9, following the picture="picnnnnn"  text. 0.1 is very translucent, while 0.9 is more opaque.

Whilst testing this I discovered the cause of Howard53's bug with Text boxes so this is fixed too. Downloads in usual place.

And Iain wrote "Would visible scroll bars and zoom buttons like in GenoPro be possible ?"
The short answer is no. The Adobe viewer does not have these features. It is possible to do it by manipulating the SVG DOM with Javascript as in my original SVG implementation but in my opinion is far too slow

Update: further update to change z order of shapes and labels

This fix worked fine - always wondered what this tool was for Had to repeat for each GenoMap.

Glad you've also fixed the 'wandering' Text Boxes. Great job.

3) I believe the SVG report already handles Japanese characters & names are displayed top to bottom if this is how they are in the GenoMap. Currently the font is fixed as 'Arial Unicode MS' but post Beta 15 I should be able to use the same font as the GenoMap. Meanwhile you can change it in the first line of the template map.svg.

GenoPro seems to keep the size of labels as multiples of 5 units. As you drag the label you can see the size in the status bar bottom left. If this is not fine enough you could try editing the GenoPro xml file and setting the label size directly and then importing the XML into GenoPro. (I've not tested this) You only need to make the label have the same aspect ratio if you have a non-transparent border or fill, i.e. you want a frame for the picture with the border the exact same thickmess on all sides. The picture is left aligned in the label to the maximum size that will fit but keeping its own aspect ratio.