INTERNET HELP

There are three ways to view the features and graphics on NAPSnet.

  1. Clicking on the tab labeled "new stories" or on the link titled "View this week's new stories" will allow you to browse the latest stories added to NAPSnet.

  2. Clicking on the tab labeled "topics" or on the link titled "View list of topics" will allow you to see a list of topic categories. Clicking on any of the category names will allow you to browse the stories within the category.

  3. Clicking on the tab labeled '"art gallery" or on the link titled "Feature art gallery" will allow you to browse a collection of graphics and photos.

Stories remain in the "new story" area for approximately one to two weeks and during this time will also be added to one or more categories. Stories remain in the category areas for approximately six months.

  1. Within either the New Story or category areas you will see a brief description of each story along with a button to click on to view the entire article. Clicking on this will bring up both the text of the story and any graphic or photo that accompanies it.
  2. To download the text, click on "File" at the top of your browser to open the File menu.
  3. Then click on "Save as", choose "Text Only" in the "Save as type" dialogue box and save with the name, and in the location, you want.

The Feature Art Gallery contains two buttons for each art file: view art file gives you a low-resolution GIF thumbnail just for viewing purposes; if you decide to download this art, then click on the other button—download art to download the high-resolution version.

  1. Images may be downloaded either as a GIF file or as a high-resolution graphic in EPS format. To download as a GIF, click on the image then click on "File" at the top of your browser to open the File menu. Then click on "Save as" and save with the name, and in the location, you want.
  2. Alternatively, you can right click on the image then select "Save Picture As" and save with the name, and in the location, you want.
FEATURETTES CD HELP

1. I pushed “Run” (or I popped in the CD) and nothing happened.
The NAPS Featurettes CD is not program; it contains text and art that can be used on your own computer using your page layout program.

2. What’s on the CD?
Two folders (directories) numbered by booklet. Inside each folder is the complete booklet in PDF format, containing a key to finding particular stories in the CD; showing file names, word count, article length; and 16 subfolders; one for each booklet page.
Inside each page folder are folders for each story, summary, filler, and quote on that page. Each story folder contains a text version of the story (extension: .txt), all art (in black and white and color if available); and an EPS (like a snapshot) of the complete piece.

3. How do I use it?
This depends on the page layout program you're using.
Here are procedures for the major page layout programs:
• QUARKXPRESS
Click in the text box and go to “Get Text” in the File Menu (Command-E on the Mac; Control-E on the PC) navigate to the CD, click on the text file you want. If you click on a picture box, the command is “Get Picture”.
• PAGEMAKER
The command is “Place”, also in the file menu. Either text or art can be chosen, then click on the page where you want the text to go.
PageMaker sometimes has trouble recognizing text files as such; if it appears a folder is empty, click on the pull-down menu in the dialog box until it reads “all files” or “text files”. The contents of the file should then appear.

4. I can’t use the PDFs...what are they for?
The index PDF is simply a guide to the contents of the CD. The booklet # PDF is for the user to: look at how we’ve formatted a story, read the text, view the artwork. While it can be printed, the printed version will not be of a quality to be pasted-up on a page. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD ACROBAT READER, which will open the PDF files.

5. I liked the color CD you distributed from time to time a few years ago. Do you plan to send it out again?
Probably not. The color CD had just color art and text, organized by topic. We expect, soon, to add a "by topic" structure to our current CD, which contains much more than the old color CD did.