A SmartDraw Legal Edition TUTORIAL

Creating Crime Scene Diagrams

Inserting a Photo into your Crime Scene
You can insert a picture or photo (such as a JPG, GIF, PNG or other bitmap image) into your diagram by choosing Open Picture in the Get Images group under the Picture tab and browsing to locate the picture on your computer.

Unless you have already selected a place for the picture to go (such as a selected shape or a table cell) it will be placed near the upper left corner of your SmartDraw document by default. You can then drag it to any position you like.

Replacing a Placeholder Photo
You can also insert a picture into an existing Picture Placeholder on the SmartTemplates.

The placeholders are temporary images meant to be replaced by your real images. Double-click on the placeholder to open the built-in photo software controls. Click on the bottm right folder icon to open the Import dialog, and then browse to the picture the same way you would using the Open Picture button.

You can delete a picture, or a picture placeholder, from the page like any other object, by clicking on it to select it and hitting the delete key.

Printing
To print your finished diagram, simply choose Print from the SmartDraw Button menu. Your diagram will automatically print to your selected printer at the diagram's inherent scale.

For example, if you print a diagram with a 1 foot=1/4" scale, then a one-inch line on the print-out will represent 4 feet.

SmartDraw can even print a large version of your diagram to a large format printer or plotter for a poster-sized presentation.

Alternatively, you can have your diagram sent to one of SmartDraw's printing partners and have your diagram or presentation printed on high-quality large-format printers and delivered to your office.

If you have a large diagram that you want printed on a single page for your records, you can simply check the Print on One Page option in the Print dialog, and SmartDraw will automatically scale your drawing down to fill a single page.