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Hi,
The size of my jar file with just the sequence diagram alone is coming to 600KB. In the assignment instructions, Sun says to have the file size between 200k and 400k. How did you guys do it? Sun suggests "optimizing the graphics"... Did you do that? If yes, can you suggest some softwares. Or did you use some other technique.

I am using StarUML. I use the "export the diagram" feature to create jpegs.

HELP!

Thanks,
Amar.
 
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Don't use JPG, use PNG instead.
 
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Even when using png the size of my jar was too big.
I used IrfanView to do a "convert to grayscale" on the png color images. That reduced the size of my jar almost by half.
The total size of my upload jar was about 700KB.

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Ronald , if use PNG, size of images should be quite small, make sure your work is not too detailed.
You should focus on architecture, and key design, not complete design.

But I wonder, does Sun restrict size of the jar file to not exceed 400K? Or Sun just suggests? If it's only a suggestion, I think no need to worry to much.
 
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It appears StarUML can only *.jpg *.jpeg *.bmp *.wmf *.emf


It does not have a png. So, what did you use for creating your diagrams.

Thanks,
Amar
 
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I think you can open JPG files in MS Paint and save as PNG.

I used MagicDraw.
 
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Kengkaj,
Thank you so much... You are very helpful..

Just FYI... I used MS Paint and saved to PNG - it doubled the size --- But, when I saved it to GIF -- it reduced.

Using MS-Paint:
JPG File of 256 KB was converted to 441 KB .png file

JPG File of 256 KB was converted to 82 KB .gif file

That was a huge relief...

Thanks,
Amar
 
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Glad to hear you solved the problem, thanks for update .

It's new to me that converting JPG to PNG make file size bigger. I think there is a different between export diagram directly to PNG and export to JPG and then convert to PNG.
 
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Is there any size restriction on the assignment? my friend's assignment is around 900KB and still he uploaded and passed the exam.
 
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Monu Sharma wrote:Is there any size restriction on the assignment? my friend's assignment is around 900KB and still he uploaded and passed the exam.


For current version, I think no. but I heard that there is a size limit in an old version of SCEA. I think it's a strange restriction, B&W images will be smaller than colored images anyway but that doesn't mean B&W images are anything better.
 
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Size limit is 1000K when I uploaded my assignment this week.
 
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Ram And wrote:Size limit is 1000K when I uploaded my assignment this week.


This is new to me. I passed SCEA 5 Beta which didn't have size limit.
 
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