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File Menu

The File menu includes the following options

New Chart

The new V3 of Cartes du Ciel allows you to open different windows with separate sky charts. The advantage is that you can visualize at the same time charts for different locations, time or even display configuration.

After creating a new chart you can arrange them throgh the Window menu, maximize, minimize, close or even resize each chart by dragging the right and bottom edges.

Open

This option allows you to open a previously saved sky chart with its own configuration of location and time

Save As

It saves the currently active sky chart into a file that can be loaded in the future with Open option

Save Image

The active sky chart is saved as an image. It is possible to select PNG, JPEG or BMP format for the file

Close Chart

It will close the active chart in case you have more than one sky chart open

Calendar

This function lets you know the astronomical phenomenon for a given time period.

Window is composed of seven areas:

Print

Print screen contents to a selected destination. Printing can be done in colour as in the screen, in black&white or in reversed black&white (with black background sky). The orientation and the paper margins can also be selected.













Printer Setup

Configures the printer to print the screen content. There are three options:

  1. System Printer: It allows to configure the typical printer
  2. Postscript: It allows to print to a postscript file. It requires having the Ghostscript and the GsView32 installed and correctly configured in the path. It will only work with version 7.xx of GsView32
  3. Bitmap file: It allows to print the chart to a BMP file. It requires to configure correctly the path of MsPaint

Exit

Just that, exits the program Cartes du Ciel