Is there a guide on how to make/convert/import Visio icons to WUG?

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> Anthony Valuikas
> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 6:49 PM
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> Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Creating Custom Icons
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> 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.
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> To each his/her own I guess..
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> Anthony Valuikas
> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 5:59 PM
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> Second that.. !
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> 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....
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> Time for a format change I think...
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> 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.
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> Tv
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Burks, Jon
> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 3:45 PM
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> Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Creating Custom Icons
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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.
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> 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 ...
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> Are you listening to your customers?
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> Add this to the wish list pile.
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> Thanks.
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> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 2:18 PM
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> Subject: Re: [WhatsUp Forum] Creating Custom Icons
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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.
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> 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.
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> Hope that helps,
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> Robert Kent
> Network Technician
> University of Connecticut
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> "Debella, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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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?
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> Thanks!
> 
> Chris DeBella
> Sr. Network Engineer
> CCLD, Inc.
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