To all: For anyone who has tried to DX Atlas "pins" generating reports, I have made a unique "bmp" photo file for use with DX Atlas.
Background: Alex, the author of DX Atlas, has given us some fairly decent flexibility within his program. The "pins" that we are used to seeing - as "defaulted" within the DX Atlas program. BUT, very nicely, Alex has given us the ability to "over-ride" the "defaulted pins" with our own pins or really whatever we want to use in place of the "pins". When I had made the DX Atlas "pin" report(s), I really wasn't too happy with the way that the defaulted PINs covered-up the Entity PFX, or even the IOTA Ref Number, etc ... I have been playing around with trying anything and everything I could think of that could "replace" the defaulted-pins with something that would give us the colored icon(s) that would signify the status of the Entity, or Grid, or now IOTA. I have come up with something that is the ONLY icon that I have been able to make that "doesn't cover-up" the Labels. The photo file is a "very small" BMP formatted photo file. I have placed an EXAMPLE screenshot of how the NEW pins.bmp file looks with the colored "FLAGS" - top screenshot -- as compared to the colored "PINS" - bottom screenshot. In the screenshot, I wanted to show "how" the Labels (by using FLAGS) is now very readable. The screenshot can be seen at my website at: http://www.navycthistory.com/wa6axe/flags.gif If anyone would like to use the new pins.bmp file, pse just "reply" to this email -- I will send you the pins.bmp file with all of the necessary instructions -- very simple. 73 Joe wa6axe
