HowTo Use QuickFrame
November 4th, 2006 by tompossin
Index of Topics
- Creating an account
- Restoring a lost password
- Starting a New Book
- Adding Paragraph Titles
- Adding Segments, Sections, etc
- Very Small books
- Building your charts
- Printing and Saving charts for use
- Printing from Browsers
- Importing and Exporting your files
- Problems and Feedback
Creating an account
The first step in using this program is to create a user account. At this
point anyone can sign up for an account simply by clicking on the “Need a
new account?” link on the login page.
After you enter all the requested information you will be given an
account.
Your new temporary password will be emailed to you.
You will be asked to change it the first time you log in to something that
you can more easily remember.
Restoring a lost password
Click the link on the login page enter your account name and email
address.
A new password will be mailed to you just like it was when you opened your
account.
Starting a New Book
From the “Home” page simply select the book you wish to work on from the
list and click the button below it.
The books you have already started are listed on the right.
To continue working on an existing book just click on its name and it will
be reloaded so you can continue working.
Adding Paragraph Titles
When you start (or restart) a book the default mode is adding paragraph
titles.
The best practice is to enter ALL your paragraph titles first.
Then when you are sure they are correct begin to add your Segments and
Breaks.
The best way to begin is to use the auto-fill button in the yellow bar
below the editing window. This will add all the verse references you need
and it will count your verses so you don’t have to. All you need to do
then is add you actual titles.
(Remember that your verse refs are included in your title. The Field
labeled verse ref is for your segment titles. This will be activated when
you click to insert a segment. Ignore it for now.)
If you skip one or make a mistake you can insert, edit, or delete a title by
clicking the edit icon to the left of the title.
This will open an editing window where you may choose what you would like
to do.
Adding Segments, Sections, etc
When you are done adding your paragraph titles it is now time to start
thinking about your breaks. To add any break whether it be Segment,
Section, Division, or Book title follow the procedure below.
- Click on the edit icon next to the paragraph title where you wish to add
a break.
- Find the type of break on the list in the window that pops up.
- You will see that you can insert the break either above or below the
point you have selected. Click either the “up” or “down” arrow to choose
and add your title.
- Segments require verse references since these
will also be used as Vertical titles.
- Book Titles should be added to the end of the list and usually done
last.
- If you have a long title for a break and a tiny break. You may click
the footnote checkbox which will place the title in a footnote with
a small marker in the actual box in your horizontal.
- If you make a mistake your breaks can be edited just like paragraph
titles. IF YOU PUT ONE IN THE WRONG PLACE it can be moved with the move
buttons and edited.
- IMPORTANT! If you do not have a book title your charts will not
build. And If you do not have at least one segment there will be no
vertical charts created.
Once you have finished these steps you are ready to move on to Building
your Charts!
Building your Charts
When you have finished all your titles you are now ready to Build your
charts. Please follow the steps below.
- Check the total number of verses you have assigned with the total number
of verses in the book. If you are off 1 or 2 no big deal. But if you are
off more than a few you have made a mistake in counting the verses in
your titles and probably need to go back and check them out. Small
discrepancies are common due to the mid-verse paragraph splitting that
is common in some books. This can cause you to count the same verse more
than once. This is not serious. (If you used auto-populate verses
will be counted for you already)
- If all is well. Click one of the two buttons in the builder tool box.
They each have descriptions on them if you hold your mouse over them.
Basically one of them is for small books and the other is for
medium to large books.
- Your results should pop up in the right hand window. If not Contact me.
- Check your results by clicking one of your charts. If you need to make
adjustments to the fonts etc. Then do the following.
- Select different fonts and sizes from the builder tool box and click the
change button.
- To see what the fonts look like click the font previewer button. You can
change fonts on the fly by clicking on the links below the font
examples.
- IMPORTANT!!!!! If you change font SIZES you must click the change
button at the bottom before they will take effect. If you have
changed the font type with the previewer those changes are good to go as
soon as you click them.
- Click the proper build button and see if you like your new changes.
When you are happy with the results you are ready to either save or print
your work.
Very small books
There are a couple of things that change if you are doing a very small
book that only requires one vertical chart. These books may have a
division or maybe even sections. However to produce a vertical chart there
are a couple things you must be aware of.
Only segments produce vertical charts.
Therefore when doing a small book you need to make one segment that
encompasses the entire book and the title you give this segment will be
your vertical chart title.
All books must have at least one segment to produce a vertical
chart.
Printing and Saving charts for use
If you are using a tabbed browser such as Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, Safari,
etc. I would HIGHLY recomend opening all your charts in new tabs. This
will make the next steps much nicer.
You may either print directly from your browser at this point or save your
charts as images.
If possible I recommend that you save them as images and either paste them
into a word proccessor or drawing program (I recommend the drawing program
that is part of OpenOffice.org it is
free and works very well for charting.) You may also want to print or
manipulate it with some other program designed to handle graphics.
Printing from Browsers
Printing from browsers is a little more error prone, gives you less
control, and usually poorer quality results. But it does work, and
it produces acceptable charts. However it is often neccessary to adjust
the height of the charts so that your browser will print it on one page.
Before printing…
Check your charts with print preview if possible to
see if they will all fit on one page.Tip…
The Mozilla FireFox browser has a feature that will automatically scale
pictures to fit the printed page. If you plan to print directly from your
printer consider using FireFox it will save you a lot of headaches.
Get Firefox
You may also need to go into the printer settings in your browser and turn
off the url and date printing “features” or you will have a lot extraneous
things printed on each chart. Similar to the kind of things you get
printed at the top and bottom of the page when you print an email or story
from the web.
Importing and Exporting your files
QuickFrame now has the ability to import and export files. This allows you
to keep backup copies of your work on your own computer. It also allows
you to move your work to and from the main QuickFrame server to your own
private QuickFrame server. This new personal server allows you to work on
QuickFrame even in places with no reliable internet connection.
REMEMER…
When you IMPORT files you will completely replace all the current files
with those in the files you are importing. So MAKE SURE that you
are importing the latest copies of your work or you will lose your latest
work.
Problems and Feedback
Since this is a new project and still under development. You have an
interesting opportunity to influence the way this program works.
I have produced a Feedback area on this site specifically designed to
allow you to report problems and give suggestions on how this program or
its documentation could be made more useful.
Please take the time to give your input here. It will be much appreciated.
Thank you,
{:> Tom Possin
