By Gary Mann
The simplest way of displaying a logo is to search the help file by typing “Logo” and then select “How to add your Company Logo” by using the List Topics button. This Helpfile describes the picture size and the file name to use. I will expand upon this and show how to use freely available tools to obtain, edit and resize any picture for use as a logo. I will also show how to store different logos for use if you work for more than one client.
To summarise, you need a “Bitmap” graphic of Height 110 pixels but no greater than 400 pixels wide and save as “Customer.bmp” in the MEPworx folder. If the graphic is less than 110 pixels high it will be resized by the program and may result in a graphic wider than 400 pixels, which may overlap other Header Titles.
Use the MEPworx graphic from the Helpfile screenshot above with the Blue background. You can also use a logo copied from the internet, or a high quality graphic obtained from your marketing department. Use the snipping tool that is shipped with Windows. If you haven’t previously used this just search for “Snipping Tool”.
Then use it to “Snip” the Blue MEPworx logo (or any other image).
Some other useful tips that can be used when hunting logos are: -
Ctrl + Prnt Scrn – Captures the entire screen to the Windows Clipboard.
Ctrl + Alt + Prnt Scrn – Captures the active Dialog Only to the Windows Clipboard.
Then paste the captured screen into Windows Paint using Ctrl + V.
To determine the current size of the logo, use Image>Resize.
In this case it shows the image as 516 wide x 168 high.
To format this picture to the required size, use the Windows calculator to calculate:
Required Height/Actual Height
= 110/168
= 0.0.655
=66 %
Resizing the picture by 66% reduces the height to 110 Pixels, just what we require.
You could use the Paint Program to select a smaller rectangular section of the blue background to fill the 110 x 400 format, but generally graphic artists are not happy if you mess about, re-arrange or distort their artwork proportions.
Logos for Different Clients.
To save different logos to use when working for various clients, create a logo folder inside your MEPworx folder. Inside the Logo folder each different Customer.bmp can be stored in an appropriately named folder and just dragged out to replace the previously used logo. See above.
Each of the six folders contains a different Customer.bmp logo file.
The screenshot below shows the MEPworx brand used as a Company Logo on a printout.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at the address below.