absolute positioning

[Chuck]

I've been trying for a week now to create a collage from
my son's wedding photos.
1)Where can I read up online about the peculiarities of
absolute positioning in FP2002?
2)What is required to use the free rotate option on the
Draw menu? (for a photo)
3)What is required to to use the set transparent color
command on a jpeg or similar quality photo (without
converting to .gif?)
I've found that I can accomplish 2) & 3) by pasting jpg's
into Powerpoint, then copying and pasting them into FP.
They retain the rotate handle from Powerpoint as well as
the transparency functionality and image quality. But it
creates a filelist.xml file which is not editable in FP,
and one little misstep creates a house-of-cards disaster.
4)Is there a better way to create a "collage" effect?

 

[Jim Buyens]

-----Original Message-----

I've been trying for a week now to create a collage from
my son's wedding photos.
1)Where can I read up online about the peculiarities of
absolute positioning in FP2002?

These really aren't peculiarities of FrontPage; they're
peculiarities of browsers. Because the various browsers
interpret absolute positioning command differetly,
creating a single page that uses absolute positioning and
looks OK on all browsers is a difficult chore.

2)What is required to use the free rotate option on the
Draw menu? (for a photo)

Can't do it. This only works for line art that you create
in FrontPage.

3)What is required to to use the set transparent color
command on a jpeg or similar quality photo (without
converting to .gif?)

Can't do it. The jpeg file format has no provision for
tgransparency.

I've found that I can accomplish 2) & 3) by pasting
jpg's into Powerpoint, then copying and pasting them
into FP. They retain the rotate handle from Powerpoint
as well as the transparency functionality and image
quality. But it creates a filelist.xml file which is not
editable in FP, and one little misstep creates a house-
of-cards disaster.

You are correct.

4)Is there a better way to create a "collage" effect?

You can use a picture editor to create one large picture
but that has the disadvantage of being, uh, large in
terms of download time. Then again, downloading all the
individual pictures can take a long time as well.

The usual approach is to display page of thumbnails
linked to full-sized pictures. The FrontPage Photo
Gallery component does this, for example. But it's true,
the result looks more like a stamp collection than a
collage.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
(e-mail address removed)
http://www.interlacken.com
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[Larry]

You might want to use the fromtpage photo gallery collage
tool in the add web componet menu. Makes things alot
easier.