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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">When I set up Myth Browser I
realized I'd need a diagram to remember what each of the remote control
buttons did. Since I wasn't using Myth Gallery, I dropped my remote
control on my scanner, added some lines and text, and placed the
resulting picture on Myth Gallery as a sort of onscreen help.<br>
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The procedure was straightforward:<br>
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- Scan the remote control with a sheet of odd color paper behind it<br>
- Use Gimp's magic wand thing to select the remote control and make
the background alpha transparent<br>
- Copy the remote control with transparent background from Gimp to
an OpenOffice-Impress slide<br>
- Add Impress background, lines, and text<br>
- Export the slide to a png picture<br>
- Add to Myth Gallery<br>
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I don't have any artistic skills, and the attached pic looks like it
will get crowded rapidly as more buttons are defined. If anyone has
any ideas to make this look better please post. Maybe we could create
a library of templates for the commonly used remotes. <br>
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Attached is an example greatly reduced in resolution and jpeg quality
to fit on the mail list. The actual png file is about 500 KB.<br>
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<img alt="Example of onscreen help for remote control"
src="cid:part1.00040604.06020002@cox.net" height="384" width="512"><br>
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