For those of you who don't know the old versions it would have a green
device then yellow then red... Just the device icon not a background shape.

To each his/her own I guess..





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Valuikas
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 5:59 PM
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Second that.. !

I played with the vector editor... Something better and I would crank them
out... You know I even suggested that they push it out to the folks that
took the Visio Stencils over... They could really make it happen....

Time for a format change I think...

Also they need to go back to the colored icons like it was in version 5 and
not the background color/shape for the icons like it is now. When you have a
lot of device on a map the way it is now cuts down on the usable space not
to mention version 5 looked more professional.


Tv






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Although device icons are more cosmetic in nature than functional, you would
think after several versions IPSwitch could get someone to create a new set
of icons for standard things as firewalls, routers, switches, SQL cluster,
Exchange cluster, web server, vpn appliance, Unix server, Linux Server, etc.

These device types have not changed much since version 3.x and the Vector
Device editor tool used to modify or create them leave a lot to be desired,
that is why we have to resort to using Visio or other 3rd party tools
(picture 2 icon/bitmap converters). Others have gone as far as posting new
custom icons on the WUG portal to share with us. This is great, but ...

Come on IPSwitch, I know you have developers that probably have in their
spare time or are willing to knock down some of the low hanging fruit.

Perhaps this is not a high priority for them like Instant Messaging, but I
for one would be willing to pay a little bit more for this in the next
version (9).

Are you listening to your customers?

Add this to the wish list pile.

Thanks.


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Visio works good.  I used it to convert over a bunch of Cisco icons. You
can do whatever you want and then "save as" in  .emf  format.  The only
catch is that if the artwork is not square then WhatsUp will distort the
aspect ratio to make it square, which won't look too good in most  cases.
But it's real easy to get around this by just enclosing everything inside
an invisible square box before you save it. I'm attaching the Cisco icons
for whoever might like them. And Cisco has the full original set on their
web site too.

If you don't have Visio, there is a free program called EVE
<http://www.goosee.com/index.shtml> that might work, and if you're looking
for just a plain viewer, try here:
<http://www.siliconwold.com/emfview/index.htm?sl>  Anything that can work
with .emf files should be good.

Hope that helps,

Robert Kent
Network Technician
University of Connecticut











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Anyone written or know about a good tool for creating icons for WUG?  I
have found the vector editing tool severely lacking.  Anyone had any luck
maybe using Fireworks or PS?

Thanks!

Chris DeBella
Sr. Network Engineer
CCLD, Inc.



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