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You can link a picture and sound with every person. Pictures are saved in the Sukujut folder as bit maps named with the person’s number plus the file extension “.bmp”, for example, 1.bmp is the picture of person number 1. Other picture formats include *.rle and *.dib. Similarly, sound files are saved in the Sukujut folder named with the number of the person plus the file extension “.wav”. The picture and sound option is active only when the folder contains a picture or sound file for the person. The quality of the pictures depends on the resolution of the scanner and the display driver. To use sound files, you need a sound card in your computer.
Photographs are included in the RTF style file of a family book if you have selected the option in the startup settings. In addition to normal *.bmp pictures, *.jpg, *.tif and *.gif files are also included if the required converters have been installed in the word processing application.
A scanner converts photographs and slides into digital format. You can also use the scanner to digitalize other items placed on the scanner. If you are using a flatbed scanner, place the photographs to be scanned on the scanner. If you are scanning slides, place them in the separate reader of the scanner.
Open the scanner or graphics application to scan and modify the picture, if necessary.
As an example, we use the HP 3C flatbed scanner and Corel Photo-Paint graphics application.
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Do a pre-scan that reads the whole scan area of the device into the memory of the computer.
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Frame the picture that was pre-scanned by moving the borderlines around the picture with the mouse.
Define different picture properties in the Custom menu. Select, for instance, the picture quality, colors, brightness, and contrast. Change color pictures to black-and-white format by selecting Sharp B. And W. Photo in the Type list box. A poor color picture usually renders a fairly good black-and-white picture, and this also decreases the file size. The default picture format in Sukujutut is BMP, and the size of a normal black-and-white picture varies between 50–150 kilobytes. If the original picture is very small, you can enlarge it by changing the Scaling percentage to, for example, 120%. Correspondingly, you can also decrease large pictures by scaling them to, say, 80%.
In this program, the scanning is started by clicking Final. Do not scan the picture with a resolution that is too high. Extraneous pixels increase the file size, and require more memory, which slows down the processing.
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You can correct pictures in a graphics application, if necessary. Usually, a more accurate cropping is done at this stage by using the tools in Sukujutut. Copy the framed area by selecting Edit > Copy and create a new picture by selecting Edit > Paste > As New Document. Save the new picture in the folder of the Sukujutut application.
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Name the picture with the person’s number, and define .bmp as the file type: in the Save File as Type list box, select Windows Bitmap. In this example, the picture is saved for person 2. If Sukujutut is open in the background, and the Central window shows the person in question, activate the picture by first selecting another person to the Central window, and then returning to the entries of the original person. A camera icon appears in the upper left corner of the screen. You can click the icon to show the picture and add a caption to it. Maximize the caption field by clicking the + button and minimize it by clicking the - button. Save pictures for the main person in the family, that is, for the spouse whose family forms the basis of your family book, because the picture is printed in the family book only for the main person.
Graphics applications can be used to change, for example, the size and colors of a picture. Many graphics applications compromise the picture quality, and you need to sharpen the picture to improve the quality. Common picture formats include *.gif and *.jpg. You can also use these formats in a family book, RTF style file and HTM file, but not when printing the date to the printer, nor is it possible to show the pictures on screen in Sukujutut. The format may, for instance, affect the colors of a picture.
