<span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">FYI</span>
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Forwarded by Mario Merri/esoc/ESA on 17/04/2018 23:36 -----</span>
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<br><span style=" font-size:9pt;color:#5f5f5f;font-family:sans-serif">From:
       </span><span style=" font-size:9pt;font-family:sans-serif">"Biggerstaff,
Craig (JSC-CD221)[SGT, INC]" <craig.biggerstaff@nasa.gov></span>
<br><span style=" font-size:9pt;color:#5f5f5f;font-family:sans-serif">To:
       </span><span style=" font-size:9pt;font-family:sans-serif">Roger
Thompson <roger.rocketbrain@btinternet.com>, "Shames, Peter
M (JPL-312B)[Jet Propulsion Laboratory]" <peter.m.shames@jpl.nasa.gov>,
'SEA-SA' <sea-sa@mailman.ccsds.org></span>
<br><span style=" font-size:9pt;color:#5f5f5f;font-family:sans-serif">Cc:
       </span><span style=" font-size:9pt;font-family:sans-serif">"mario.merri@esa.int"
<mario.merri@esa.int></span>
<br><span style=" font-size:9pt;color:#5f5f5f;font-family:sans-serif">Date:
       </span><span style=" font-size:9pt;font-family:sans-serif">17/04/2018
16:18</span>
<br><span style=" font-size:9pt;color:#5f5f5f;font-family:sans-serif">Subject:
       </span><span style=" font-size:9pt;font-family:sans-serif">RE:
[Sea-sa] Importing diagrams from PPT to Word</span>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#004080;font-family:Calibri">Dear
sea-sa members,</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#004080;font-family:Calibri"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#004080;font-family:Calibri">It
is not necessary to use a 3^rd party tool to get scalable graphics.
 The guidelines that have worked for me are:</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#004080;font-family:Symbol">·
        </span><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#004080;font-family:Calibri">If
Visio is used to create diagrams, create a separate “sheet” for each
diagram within the same Visio file, and label each by figure number.  It
makes for a clean delivery package to the Secretariat.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#004080;font-family:Symbol">·
        </span><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#004080;font-family:Calibri">The
same principle applies if using Powerpoint:  separate slide for each
diagram, labelled by figure number.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#004080;font-family:Symbol">·
        </span><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#004080;font-family:Calibri">DON’T
paste images into Word as editable embedded (Powerpoint, Visio, etc.) objects.
 This makes the document grow uncontrollably large and Word becomes
(even more) prone to erratic behavior.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#004080;font-family:Symbol">·
        </span><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#004080;font-family:Calibri">DON’T
paste images into Word as bitmap objects.  These are nearly unreadable
when resized or printed.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#004080;font-family:Symbol">·
        </span><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#004080;font-family:Calibri">DO
paste images into Word using “Paste Special…” and select “Enhanced
Metafile”.  This format scales very well.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#004080;font-family:Symbol">·
        </span><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#004080;font-family:Calibri">DO
paste images into Word using “Paste Special…” and select PNG.  PNG
also scales well.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#004080;font-family:Symbol">·
        </span><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#004080;font-family:Calibri">JPEG
can be used too, but it is a lossy format and sometimes introduces visible
artifacts into the image for no obvious reason.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#004080;font-family:Calibri"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#004080;font-family:Calibri">If
e.g. UML tools offer a selection of formats for file export, PNG is likely
the best choice.  Save directly into a graphics image format if possible.
 Export to PDF can be used if necessary, but since graphics are themselves
embedded objects in PDF, copy/paste from PDF into Word is slower and more
cumbersome.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#004080;font-family:Calibri"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#004080;font-family:Calibri">Hope
this helps.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#004080;font-family:Calibri"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#004080;font-family:Calibri">Best
regards,</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#004080;font-family:Calibri"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#004080;font-family:Calibri"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#002060;font-family:Calibri">Craig
Biggerstaff</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#002060;font-family:Calibri">Senior
Engineer Specialist, Mission Systems Operations Contract</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#002060;font-family:Calibri">+1
281 483 2027</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><a href=mailto:craig.biggerstaff@nasa.gov><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#0082bf;font-family:Calibri"><u>craig.biggerstaff@nasa.gov</u></span></a></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#004080;font-family:Calibri"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><b>From:</b>
SEA-SA <sea-sa-bounces@mailman.ccsds.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Roger
Thompson<b><br>
Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 17, 2018 4:25 AM<b><br>
To:</b> Shames, Peter M (JPL-312B)[Jet Propulsion Laboratory] <peter.m.shames@jpl.nasa.gov>;
'SEA-SA' <sea-sa@mailman.ccsds.org><b><br>
Cc:</b> mario.merri@esa.int<b><br>
Subject:</b> Re: [Sea-sa] Importing diagrams from PPT to Word</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#004080;font-family:Calibri">Hi
Peter,</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#004080;font-family:Calibri"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#004080;font-family:Calibri">Where
has this requirement come from and can Tom propose an efficient process
for achieving this?</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#004080;font-family:Calibri"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#004080;font-family:Calibri">Is
this something Tom does for us when processing the books for publication,
given the source graphics file, or is it something the authors themselves
are supposed to do?</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#004080;font-family:Calibri"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#004080;font-family:Calibri">Few
tools have native support for svg, while other graphics formats are widely
supported.  The MS Office tools would appear to support jpeg, gif,
png, as well as some Microsoft proprietary formats, but not svg.  I
suspect the situation for UML tools will be worse than for the Office suite.
 In my view we should be allowing the use of a widely supported generic
format, such as jpeg.  I do not know of an efficient means of generating
svg from powerpoint using the tools I have at my disposal.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#004080;font-family:Calibri"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#004080;font-family:Calibri">As
it stands, we have in excess of 70 figures to include in our green book.
 Mine (50 or so) are all sourced in Powerpoint.  To import a
JPEG to Word from Powerpoint takes about a minute per diagram (so <1hr
for all of my diagrams) – this is not a one-off task, as diagrams continue
to be updated.  This method also allows you to select the portion
of the powerpoint slide to be included (typically not the Slide header
and footer).  If instead we have to use a 3^rd party tool
to generate an SVG file, import that and crop to the diagram itself, I
would estimate this could take 10-15 minutes per diagram (1-1½ days for
a full update of 50 diagrams.  Given the budget available for this
task, this seems excessive and not a useful way of spending limited resources.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#004080;font-family:Calibri"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#004080;font-family:Calibri">Cheers,</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#004080;font-family:Calibri"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#004080;font-family:Calibri">Roger</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><a name=_MailEndCompose></a><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#004080;font-family:Calibri"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma"><b>From:</b>
SEA-SA [</span><a href="mailto:sea-sa-bounces@mailman.ccsds.org"><span style=" font-size:10pt;color:#0082bf;font-family:Tahoma"><u>mailto:sea-sa-bounces@mailman.ccsds.org</u></span></a><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma">]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Shames, Peter M (312B)<b><br>
Sent:</b> 13 April 2018 16:05<b><br>
To:</b> SEA-SA<b><br>
Subject:</b> [Sea-sa] Importing diagrams from PPT to Word</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Hi
Guys,</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">I
just asked Tom Gannett, the CCSDS Chief Technical Editor, about his recommendation
for handling diagrams in Word docs.  His concise statement is "scalable
vector graphics".  This does translate into SVG, but PDF in vector
graphics mode (not bitmap) also works.  JPG, bitmap, PICT, etc are
not acceptable.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">So
I recommend using PDF vector images to import graphics from PPT (or other
sources) into our Word doc.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">In
any event expect to provide the source files for all figures, regardless
of the tool you use to produce it.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Thanks,
Peter</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"> </span></p>
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