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I don't think the PM function will help as the html editing also seems limited.

The main ones that I know of are as follows:

Equal
Meridian
Whole Signs
Morinus
M-Houses
Meridian Whole Sign
Carter's Poli Equatorial

Some of these are quite obscure. I guess your top priorities are Equal, Meridian, Whole Signs, Morinus.

I think it would be helpful for you to have the table that I prepared. Can we exchange an email? I don't really want to publish my address on here though.

Ed

astralwanderer wrote: Some of these are quite obscure. I guess your top priorities are Equal, Meridian, Whole Signs, Morinus.

I think it would be helpful for you to have the table that I prepared. Can we exchange an email? I don't really want to publish my address on here though.

Hi again Ed,

I received your email, thanks for the table!
Following your suggestions, on a first approach I will focus my attention on the Whole Signs and correcting my implementation for the Equal and the Meridian house systems. As per your table, my implementation seems to be incorrect either for Equal (on the MC) and Meridian (on the Asc).

As I've mentioned, it will require a slight change in the implementation, but since my code is quite modular, I guess it will be relatively easy to implement them.

On a later approach, if time permits and people find it useful, I may try to implement 'Morinus' house system, and take a look at the others.


Thanks again,
Jo?o Ventura (http://www.flatangle.com/)

Hi Jo?o -

Thanks for the confirmation of the email. Get in touch if anything is not clear. I think you've got the priorities right. Whole sign is a really important system, esp. in classical and hellenistic astrology. Chris B will be really pleased to see it in your charts app, as will many others including myself.

Ed

Hello everyone,

I would like to let you know that I've published a new article in my blog. In this article I show, step-by-step, two approaches to create high quality PDF publications with Charts.

You can read the article at http://blog.flatangle.com/2014/charts-pdf-publications/.

These approaches allows us to create astrology publications similar to the following image, and a PDF example can be seen in this file.
I've also made a small video which can be seen at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1bxBOa7y4s.


Enjoy and share,
Jo?o Ventura (http://www.flatangle.com/)

Thanks again for all your work, Jo?o. I hesitate to add to your list of requests, but as you are explicitly targeting traditional astrologers, I wonder if you have considered including a wheel showing the terms (or bounds, as some prefer to call them)? They would be especially useful to people working with directions through the terms.

hi joao,

thanks for sharing. i like the look of the charts. i went to your site to see more about how it works. i made a chart and was able to save it as an svg file onto my computer.. i agree with another poster - it would be good to include whole sign houses.. i would also like to see that the equal house system included the midheaven with a point showing it on the chart for those of us who like using equal house system. at present you don't have that either..

regarding the svg files.. i am not versed in computers well enough to know, but i can tell you that svg is not a file that i can easily convert - i am unable to convert it actually - so that i could show you what the chart looks like.. for that i need it to be a jpg type file.. not sure what svg is, but that is what i get when i save the chart made from your software to my computer..

thought you might like this feedback, so i am sharing it..

cheers james

Martin Gansten wrote:Thanks again for all your work, Jo?o. I hesitate to add to your list of requests, but as you are explicitly targeting traditional astrologers, I wonder if you have considered including a wheel showing the terms (or bounds, as some prefer to call them)? They would be especially useful to people working with directions through the terms.

Hi again Martin,

regarding the terms on the chart itself, I have already thought about it before. However, I couldn't find a reason which would be good enough for making me implement it.

The directions through terms seems quite relevant indeed. Do you think that there may be other reasons for the terms in the chart? Isn't a table of terms more efficient for that case?

james_m wrote: regarding the svg files.. i am not versed in computers well enough to know, but i can tell you that svg is not a file that i can easily convert - i am unable to convert it actually - so that i could show you what the chart looks like.. for that i need it to be a jpg type file.. not sure what svg is, but that is what i get when i save the chart made from your software to my computer..

Hi James,

thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it!

When you export a chart, you can choose between two types of files: SVG and PNG:

- PNG is what in Computer Science we call a "raster graphics file format". Basically, it is similar to what you could expect of other raster files such as BMP, GIF, JPG, etc. The file saves, for each pixel of an image, its color and that is why when you zoom an image like that, after some zooming, the image starts to lose definition. We don't have enough information for the sub pixels smaller than 1 pixel.

- SVG is a vector format. Basically, the file contains only references to circles, lines, squares, etc. You can scale it to infinite without losing definition because it is just mathematical formulas.

So, long story short, if you want to manipulate the chart images like you would manipulate another image, you should export it to PNG. If you want to make an high definition chart publication, such as on a PDF, a book or somewhere on the internet where you want perfect pixel definition, you should use SVG.

To see what I mean with the SVG, try to zoom in the chart on this pdf file and you should see that it never loses the detail. The chart on the PDF was generated as an SVG file.

Most people will only want a regular image such as PNG, so I will probably have to change the default export type to PNG. I guess SVG is more oriented for people who want to do some kind of publishing, even if personal.


Thanks,
Jo?o Ventura (http://www.flatangle.com/)

jventura wrote:The directions through terms seems quite relevant indeed. Do you think that there may be other reasons for the terms in the chart? Isn't a table of terms more efficient for that case?

My personal preference would be for the chart format, to keep the terms integrated with the chart as a whole and not have to consult two different diagrams. The terms, with their irregular distribution pattern, are the one dignity that can be difficult to memorize; including them in the chart would mean that all the major traditional dignities could be seen from a glance. These are used, as you know, for a variety of purposes, from character analysis to longevity procedures.

When working with directions, I find it useful to be able mentally to progress a significator successively through the terms in the chart and see what planets and aspects it encounters in each division, which is easy to do when the terms are included in the chart. (Calculating the times of these directions is, of course, another, more complex matter.)

hi joao,

thanks for explaining all that! the only publishing i do is on the net. i do find it easier if i can convert the file to a jpg for that reason, but i see what you are saying.. thanks for sharing!

What you might want to consider is working on a report that can be sold relatively inexpensively on the web. According to Hank Friedman, most astro software that has done well in the past has had reports included.

zoidsoft wrote:What you might want to consider is working on a report that can be sold relatively inexpensively on the web. According to Hank Friedman, most astro software that has done well in the past has had reports included.

Hi Curtis,

my current motivations are more towards professionals and serious enthusiasts, but that is a good idea! Maybe some day, who knows..

However, I could try to guess why software with reports included sell well: some people just don't know a thing about astrology and buy those softwares hoping to save some bucks in astrology consultations.. They get what they pay for!


Jo?o Ventura
http://www.flatangle.com

jventura wrote:However, I could try to guess why software with reports included sell well: some people just don't know a thing about astrology and buy those softwares hoping to save some bucks in astrology consultations.. They get what they pay for!

Actually if I remember right Hank Friedman said that professional astrologers prefer good reports in their software and give these to their clients as a courtesy or sell them. Hank Friedman writes for the Mountain Astrologer and can be reached at http://www.soulhealing.com. He's also probably the most well known reviewer of astrological software in the world.