GChemPaint/C2/View-Print-and-Export-structures/English-timed
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Title of the tutorial: View-Print-and-Export-structures
Author: Madhuri Ganapathi
Key words: View options, Zoom factor, Page setup, Portrait, Landscape, Reverse portrait, Reverse landscape, print, Export an image as SVG and PDF formats, video tutorial.
| Time | Narration |
|---|---|
| 00:00 | Hello everyone. |
| 00:02 | Welcome the tutorial on View, Print and Export structures in GChemPaint. |
| 00:09 | In this tutorial we will learn: |
| 00:11 | *View options |
| 00:13 | *Zoom factor |
| 00:14 | *Page setup |
| 00:15 | *Print Preview |
| 00:17 | *Print a document |
| 00:19 | *Export an image as SVG and PDF formats. |
| 00:24 | Here I am using |
| 00:26 | Ubuntu Linux OS version. 12.04, |
| 00:30 | GChemPaint version 0.12.10 |
| 00:35 | To follow this tutorial you should be familiar with, |
| 00:40 | GChemPaint chemical structure editor. |
| 00:43 | If not, for relevant tutorials, please visit our website. |
| 00:48 | To open a new GChemPaint application, |
| 00:52 | click on Dash home. |
| 00:53 | In the Search bar that appears, type GChemPaint. |
| 00:58 | Click on the GChemPaint icon. |
| 01:01 | Let's first open an existing file. |
| 01:05 | Click on Open a file icon from the toolbar. |
| 01:09 | A window with files and folders opens. |
| 01:12 | Select the file named “pentane-ethane” from the list. |
| 01:16 | Click on Open button. |
| 01:19 | Now first let's learn about View options. |
| 01:23 | Go to View menu. |
| 01:25 | In the View menu, we have two options Full Screen and Zoom. |
| 01:31 | Let's select Zoom option. |
| 01:33 | A submenu opens with a list of zoom factors. |
| 01:38 | Scroll down the list and select Zoom to %. |
| 01:43 | A dialog box with zoom factor (%) opens. |
| 01:47 | The default zoom factor(%) value is displayed. |
| 01:51 | Here we can increase or decrease the Zoom factor as required. |
| 01:57 | Click on the up or down arrow triangle and observe the zooming. |
| 02:03 | Click on Apply and then click on OK. |
| 02:07 | The structure appears with the applied zoom factor. |
| 02:11 | Next, let's see how to setup a page. |
| 02:15 | Go to File menu, navigate to Page Setup and click on it. |
| 02:20 | The Page Setup window opens. |
| 02:23 | This window contains two tabs - Page and Scale. |
| 02:29 | Page tab contains fields like Paper, Center on Page and Orientation. |
| 02:36 | In the Paper field, we can set the default paper size. |
| 02:41 | Let's click on Change Paper Type button. |
| 02:44 | The Page Setup dialog box opens. |
| 02:48 | There are 3 options here - Format for, Paper size and Orientation. |
| 02:55 | Select your default printer in the Format for field. |
| 03:00 | I will select my default printer. |
| 03:03 | Paper size field has a drop down list with different paper sizes. |
| 03:09 | I will select A4. |
| 03:11 | Below this field the dimensions of A4 size are displayed. |
| 03:17 | Note that paper size dimensions are displayed for every selected paper size. |
| 03:24 | In the orientation field we have 4 radio buttons - |
| 03:29 | Portrait, |
| 03:30 | Landscape, |
| 03:31 | Reverse portrait, |
| 03:32 | and Reverse landscape. |
| 03:35 | By default Portrait is selected. |
| 03:39 | Let's leave as it is and click on Apply. |
| 03:43 | Next, we have margin sizes. |
| 03:46 | Top margin, Left margin, Right margin and Bottom margin. |
| 03:52 | Here,we can adjust the margins as required. |
| 03:56 | Next field is Unit. |
| 03:59 | Unit field can be set in inches, millimetres and points. |
| 04:05 | Note that when we change the Unit, margin sizes automatically change to suit the Unit. |
| 04:14 | Let's learn about Center on page. |
| 04:17 | Here we have two check boxes Horizontally and Vertically. |
| 04:22 | Let's click on Horizontally check box. |
| 04:26 | We can see the preview of our structure by clicking on the Preview button. |
| 04:33 | Here we can see the Preview. |
| 04:35 | Let's close the preview window. |
| 04:38 | In the Orientation field we have radio buttons for |
| 04:43 | Portrait, |
| 04:44 | Landscape, |
| 04:45 | Reverse portrait and Reverse landscape |
| 04:49 | By default, Portrait is selected. |
| 04:53 | Now, let's click on Landscape radio button. |
| 04:57 | and then click on Preview button. |
| 05:01 | Here we can see the preview of Landscape Orientation. |
| 05:06 | You can explore the other Orientation options on your own. |
| 05:11 | If you click on Print button, the file will be printed with the changes made. |
| 05:17 | You can also scale your structure as required before printing. |
| 05:23 | For this, you can use the various options in the Scale tab. |
| 05:28 | Explore Scale tab on your own. |
| 05:32 | Let's click on Close button to close the Page Setup window. |
| 05:37 | Next, let's learn how to export an image. |
| 05:41 | Go to File menu, select “Save as image”. |
| 05:44 | “Save as image” dialog box opens. |
| 05:48 | File Type field has a list of image options. |
| 05:52 | You can export the image as SVG, EPS, PDF, PNG, JPEG and a few others. |
| 06:04 | Let's select SVG image. |
| 06:07 | Enter file name as “Pentane-ethane”. |
| 06:11 | Click on Save button. |
| 06:13 | Here we can see that file is saved as a SVG image. |
| 06:18 | Next let's export the image as PDF document. |
| 06:23 | Go to File menu, select “Save as image”. |
| 06:27 | “Save as image” dialog box opens. |
| 06:31 | From File Type , select PDF document. |
| 06:35 | Enter the file name as “Pentane-ethane” , |
| 06:39 | click on Save button. |
| 06:41 | Here we can see the file is saved as a PDF document. |
| 06:46 | With this we come to the end of this tutorial. |
| 06:50 | Let's summarize. |
| 06:51 | In this tutorial we have learnt about: |
| 06:54 | *View options |
| 06:56 | *Zoom factor |
| 06:57 | *Page setup |
| 06:58 | *Print Preview |
| 07:00 | *Print a document and |
| 07:03 | *Export an image. |
| 07:05 | As an assignment, |
| 07:06 | print the structures in A5, B5 and JB5 formats. |
| 07:12 | Export the image as EPS and PNG formats. |
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