FrettyCharts Help Manual
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- Introduction
- Sample Gallery
- Using the Application
- Managing Projects
- Product Registration
- Editing
- Adding a Chord
- Adding a Scale
- Adding a Group
- Editing Chords
- Editing Scales
- Setting the Tuning
- Rendering
- Render Project
- Render Item
- Printing
- Styles
- Managing Styles
- General Settings
- Preview
- Colors
- Text and Fonts
- Sizing
- Spacing
- Fret Layout
- Markers
- Barre Chords
- Display Items
- Project Settings
- HTML Rendering
- MIDI Audio
- Chord Naming Rules
Styles - General Settings
The general settings tab in the style editor contains the following items:
Style Name
Click the button next to the text field to bring up a name entry window.
Image Format / Quality
This setting determines the image format that will be used when the images are rendered out. Some formats such as JPEG allow an image quality setting to be specified using the slider. Unless there is a particular need to save space, 100% quality is the best setting.
Anti Aliasing
This is a common technique in image rendering where sharp edges in an image are lightly blended with their backgrounds to present a smoother result. By default this setting is switched on which is recommended. To experiment with the setting, use the "Preview" tab to view the difference.
Flush Line Corners
This setting is best described in the following image:
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Flush Line Corners disabled. Note the nut and frets cross over the string lines. |
Flush Line Corners enabled. All intersecting lines meet exactly. |
Scale
This setting allows you to rapidly scale down the size of the images that will be rendered. By default this is set to 100% which means the image sizing, spacing and font sizes will be determined by their entered settings in the other tabs.
If you enter 50 in this field, all of those values will be scaled down by half at the time of rendering. NOTE: This setting will NOT change any of the values entered in the other tabs. They always remain as you entered them.
Some fonts will scale in an unpredictable way, and so when scaling down a long way with this feature it may be necessary to adjust font sizes in the "Fonts" tab.
Chord Orientation
The following example illustrates this setting. It's a question of taste as to which way to go.
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Horizontal orientation |
Vertical orientation |
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