can any one tell me how to convert a signlab file to a jpeg?

[Robert Lambie]

lots of ways mate… an easy one is to open your paint package. good one if you have one… minimise it.
have signlab on the screen with the picture or vehicle you want to convert and hit “alt” & “print screen” then minimise signlab open paint package.
click “file” then “new” then “window” allow it to open in the setting it shows. then click “edit” and “paste.”

from here you can crop, chop, resize or save as what file type you want.

another is in signlab.
select the image. click “transform” then “render to “bitmap” make it the rez you want etc… then click ok…
it should leave a bitmap of it on screen then click “edit” & “export image as”

hope this helps i typed this quick… 😮

[eddie cotter]

now thats what i call service 😀 😀 😀 thanks mate, free b&b for you as well as steve braughton 😀 😀 😀 eddie

[Steve Broughton]

😳 If you think I’m sharing a bed with a hairy (oops i swore) scotsman, you’ve another think coming boy, he can sleep outside with the sheep. 😆 😆

[Robert Lambie]

now now steve, i told you i get a body wax hair removal every week. 😉
and just because my second name is “LAMBie” doesnt mean i like to sleep amongst the sheep. 😆 😆 😆 😆
but fair enough you take the bed mate. i’ll probably be found sleeping outside some place anyway.. having not made it back from the pub with eddie.. 😉 😆 😆 😆

[Deleted User]

The Signlab bitmap feature is an excellent way of producing artwork for e-mail.
However, there are a few tricks to help make things better.
Aim to produce a final image no bigger than A5 if using full colour (this could include a vehicle phot as a backround for you artwork for instance).
If it is straight vector artwork for conversion, use 256 colours. This way you can aim at an image about 250mm max in the largest direction.
The artwork must be re-sized to the final viewing size BEFORE conversion to Bitmap.
However, don’t include any dimensions, as they will show incorrect sizes afterwards.
Procedure:
Arrange your artwork to fit within a page (as above). Draw a plain white panel just larger than your artwork and “send-to-back”. This will give the image an appearance like a photo (with a white border).
Marquee select everything for conversion, re-check the physical size in the toolbar, then select “transform/render to bitmap”.
Now you will have a choice of colours (full colour/256/greyscale/monochrome). Select your colour output choice, then see the output file size displayed.
You can also select the resolution. Leave it at the default of 72dpi as the web will not display any higher.
Aim at about 800K as a final bitmap output.
If it’s too big, go back to the image on screen and scale it down a bit.
Select “create bitmap” and browse to a folder where you want to save it.
I use Picaview to instantly convert the file to a jpeg without having to open a program (just right click the file to get the conversion menu if you have Picaview installed).
If you don’t have Picaview or similar, just open it up in your graphics package and save it as a jpeg.
From 800K bmp it will end up as about 250K jpeg ( a nice size for a customer to receive on e-mail).

When sending on e-mail, “insert” the image in to the body of the e-mail, rather than send it as an attachment, so that it is instantly displayed.

Hope this helps.

[Robert Lambie]

nice one peter… explained much better & in detail.. thank you. 😉

[eddie cotter]

thanks a bunch lads! especialy to peter for the detailed reply,
had a go tonight & worked fine, just a few jagged edges!
but i will have a mess around with the rez & see what it does.
thanks again to all, eddie 😉

[Bob Gilliland]

Peter (or anyone else for that matter),

Being someone new to SignLab via e6.1, is it safe to say that SL 5.x or lower versions don’t have the ability to output direct to the .jpg format and that is why you use Picaview for that operation? What raster based formats does 5.x support? Does version 4.x support any raster based exporting and if so, what formats? Thanx. 🙂

[Steve Broughton]

Bob you can convert to .bmp and thats it.

[Bob Gilliland]

Thanks Steve! Still learning. 🙂

Just as a FYI, here is list of the current options when exporting an image…

BMP
PCX
TIF
PNG
JPG

Wouldn’t say that would be enough to get me to upgrade to a new version, but perhaps an option that doesn’t get much press compared to other items.

[Robert Lambie]

yep, you can only create the bmp, but can export as a bmp, tiff & eps i think! 🙄