Saving Your Work

Saving Your Work

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There are two ways you can save your work:

as an image that combines the background chart with the objects you have drawn; this can be:

in the Clipboard, or

in a file

as a document that you can open and then restore at a later time

Saving an Image

To save an image to the Clipboard, either:

type ctrl-C, or

choose Copy Chart Picture to Clipboard from the menu

Once you have done this, you can simply paste your image into any other program.

To save an image to a file, choose Save Chart Picture from the menu. You can save your image in BMP, JPG, GIF or PNG format (for Windows® 95 only BMP format is supported):

BMP can be read by most programs that read graphics, but it is not compressed and will produce a large file;

JPG uses a compression algorithm that loses information, which means that your image will be slightly degraded;

there are patent issues associated with GIF files, so you may wish to avoid them;

PNG is a new format that can be read by an increasing number of programs (especially browsers). It produces very compact files and avoids the problems mentioned for the other formats.

One sample that we tried yielded the following file sizes (in bytes):

BMP	1,033,470
JPG (90%)	170,762
GIF	59,784
PNG	56,407

Saving Your Work for Later

If you're working with more than one chart (different symbols, different time frames, different dates, etc), the following commands (from the menu) will be of use:

New clears the overlay and creates an Untitled document

Open opens a previously saved document

Save saves the current document if it has a name (if not Save acts like Save As)

Save As asks for you to choose a name and location and saves the current document there

The name of the file used in the last New, Open, Save or Save As command will appear in the title bar at the top of the window.