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Distribute and Present Schedules 10-1

Chapter 10: Distribute and Present Schedules

Milestones Simplicity schedules can be presented and distributed in a wide variety of methods and formats:

• Quickly format a schedule for presentation by applying a template (see Chapter 9).

• Print a wall-size schedule for viewing (see Chapter 7).

• Copy and paste a schedule to other Windows applications (see Chapter 8).

• Create Internet-ready documents containing your schedules.

• E-mail a Milestones Simplicity schedule to a client or colleague, who can then use the free Milestones

Viewer to open and print the schedule, along with other functionality, without allowing editing rights.

• Finally, use the Save to PDF feature to create a PDF ﬁ le that can be viewed with the free Adobe

Acrobat® Reader or any other PDF viewer.

Publishing for the Internet/Intranet

Milestones Simplicity’s built-in Internet Publishing Wizard gives you the following output options:

• Create a picture of each page of the Milestones Simplicity schedule.

• Create a single HTML document that contains a picture of each page of the schedule; a table of

schedule data; the start and end date of the schedule; the schedule title; as well as symbol notes.

Graphics Output Options and Bitmap Options

All of the following settings are available in the Internet Publishing Wizard. When applicable, refer to these

suggestions and explanations for making optimal choices.

• Create a Bitmap for each page of the schedule or Include a bitmap of each page: Generates a

picture of each schedule page.

• Bitmap Format for the graphics output: PNG is usually the best choice if the image will be viewed

with a browser. Not all browsers support BMP ﬁ les. GIF is limited to only 256 colors, so any included

bitmaps or gradient ﬁ lls will degrade in quality. JPEG is a lossy format best suited for photos, not charts

and graphs. All browsers support PNG (Portable Network Graphics) ﬁ les; it is not limited to 256 colors;

and is a lossless format; and is a good alternative to GIF. PNG ﬁ les are about the same size as GIF

ﬁ les.

• JPEG Compression factor: A factor from 10 to 99 (or none). The lower the JPEG Compression

number you select, the smaller the ﬁ le will be. However, the image quality will degrade accordingly.

• Image Scale ratio: Determines how large the resultant bitmap is. 1.0 is full size according to the Page

Size set in the Layout tab. 0.5 is 50% of the Page Size.

• Graphic File Name Starter: Adds a letter which preﬁ xes all graphics ﬁ le names, e.g. G0001.jpg.