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Chess Diagram Creator for Word Pro
download CDC v2.0 · screenshot
Provides an easy way for including diagrams in Lotus Word Pro documents. In addition you will need at least one chess font. Currently the following TrueType fonts are supported:
- Chess SSi
- Traveller Standard
- Chess Berlin
- Chess Line
- Chess Millennia-D
- Chess Millennia-L
- Chess
- Chess Leipzig
- Skak
A good place to get chess fonts and lots of useful chess publishing resources is:
http://www.enpassant.dk/chess/dtpeng.htm
There are also some excellent MS Word macros at:
http://www.chessvariants.com/d.font/fonts.html
If you have any comments, improvements or queries about CDC then you can leave a message on the message board or contact the author.
Using Chess Diagram Creator to make web graphics
You will need an image editing program to save the graphics as GIFs or JPEGs (or possibly PNGs). A very good freeware program for this is IrfanView.You could follow this procedure:
- Create your diagram in Word Pro using CDC. Using a font size of 18 seems to work well.
- Click on the edge of the diagram so that the frame is selected.
- Copy the frame to the clipboard. Word Pro will create a bitmap of the frame contents as part of the clipboard package.
- Switch to (for example) IrfanView and paste the picture as a new image.
- Save as a GIF (or JPEG or PNG)
- If you want to you can now delete the diagram from Word Pro.
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