Casual Talk on How to Use the Program

Overlaying Charts-Synastry
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Did you know you can have two or up to ten people in one chart window,
overlaying their charts, having them side by side? Yes you can. You simply
drag one or more names from the chart list window ONTO one of the chart
squares on the chart window.. and those charts will go "into" that window
and are now "Sources" from which you can draw. On the Pallet's you'll see
"Sources" which means "Where is the chart being drawn from- what is the
Source"... so Sources are People or Charts.. and you can have up to ten in a
Window.. Sources is a MENU on the Pallets which you can select from. You
can put one chart on one wheel, another chart on the next wheel, and in this
way overlay charts of different people on the Tri Wheel.

Duplicating Charts
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On the chart window you can have 1, 2, 4 or 6 charts. Say you have more
than 1, you have 2, 4 or 6. Say you got one chart just the way you like it and
you want the same settings in the other charts.. normally this would be a lot
of work, but you don't have to do that work thankfully. You can just GRAB
and DRAG the chart you have done and drop it in the other squares. The
chart style will go into the square you dropped on whole... complete.. so you
don't have to replicate your work !

How to Save Your Chart Formatting Work

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Formatting charts is a lot of little poking around on the Pallet. You want to
save that work. Fortunately you have two ways you can save your work. One
is Chart Styles and one is Window Styles. Chart Styles save the chart only,
whereas Window Styles save the charts and the Window's settings too.
Both are good and have different applications. If you got a chart right, and
you just want to save that for later recall, then you open the Pallet.. with the
Pallet button or by Right Clicking on the chart and selecting Pallet from the
pop up menu.. then on the CHART TAB on the Pallet window you click
SAVE and NAME your chart style, and it will be added to the list of chart
styles you see there, and that appears on the pop up pallet in regular charts.
There are two Pallets.. one is the pop up that appears inside regular charts,
which are North, South, and Wheel charts. The other Pallet is the floating
Pallet which has much more power than the other. Saving your work as a
Window Style is much like saving a Chart Style, except you do it on the
Window Tab of the floating Pallet... they appear in a different menu, and
they include the whole window's settings.

Window Styles save when you close the window. If you opened a Window
by double clicking then the DEFAULT WINDOW STYLE is used, and when
you close that window, the DEFAULT window style is what will be written
over with any changes you made.. in this way you ever changing preferences
are always saved when you close the window. At any time you can force it
to save your work by saving a Window Style and using the name Default if
you are sure this window that you have before you is the one you want to
always open when you open a chart.

If you like a Window or Chart style but don't like it's name, just open it,
save it again but under a different name the delete the first one so that the
ugly name is gone.

Adding your own Picture Background

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Under Settings there is a menu line "Chart Imagery Management" which
produces a window that allows you to Enter pictures that are made
available through the menu as chart backgrounds. The picture you enter
should be square or close to it, and should be reasonable in its size and DPI.
It's OK to put in a Retina image at 144 dpi, heck 300 dpi would probably
work fine, but the larger the file the more it bogs down memory and
performance.

Open the window and click the Add button which is right below the list of
pictures. Then type a name for your picture. Then get your picture on the
clipboard, or drag it to the square that holds the picture which is right
below where you type the name. Not all picture types will drag and drop to
the square correctly. I know that PNG works. Other formats work, but you
have to paste them in. Sometimes when you click on the square a File
Selection dialog appears, and that can be used to select your picture file off
disk. Next, mark the 3 radio buttons labeled "Regular Glyphs", this is
important for proper functioning. Do not mark anything else. Now click
Save. Your picture name is added to the end of the list. Click it and you
should see your picture stay in the square, if it disappears, then your entry
did not take properly, and you should do this odd thing: You should save a
new chart, and open a chart, in this way "Cruise the program" and then
come back here and try again, as this window is not robust.. it is buggy.. I
can't fix it.. it seems corrupted, I'd have to remake it's file which is
something I have planned. For now, one has to work with it to get it to
work, so to speak. Usually it's not long before it takes your pict correctly.

Once your pict is added simply go to a chart window, click a chart square to
select it, open the pallet, click Picture Background and select your pict, and
it should appear.. now you have to use COLOR on the pallet to colorize
things so that they show up clearly on the colors of your pic.

Getting to Features and the Window Sets concept

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The chart list window is where you open charts and other features as well.
The basic idea is that you hi light a chart or two, and click a button for
opening chart or other feature, and the window(s) will appear. There are
features in the menus at the top of the window, but there's a menu, the
third one from the left, which has all the features on it.. the menu is labeled
as "Feature Windows" and includes ALL the features. The only other
features of the software are buried in the planet list on chart windows, or
are in the upper menus that are a part of the global program, not a part of
the chart list window.. things like Search Readings Database and the
general Karakas window, have nothing to do with any specific chart, they
are general, global, overall, and as such are not located on the menus of the
chart list window, which is always about what charts you have hi lighted.
Everything about the Chart List Window is about CHARTS... the things in
the upper menus are Global. That features menu I mentioned... those are
all the Windows you can use in Window Sets, which are named groups of
windows you open, that can be recalled by selecting that name you give
from the Window Sets menu... you open a bunch of windows, place them
where you like, sized the way you like, and then you select "Save open
windows as a set" from the Settings menu at the top.. you name your set,
and it goes into the Window Sets menu. You can recall and reopen those
windows now at any time with one menu line selection.. instead of a lot of
separate selections to get those windows open again.

I feel most people will not use Window Sets, because I think most people
just deal with the chart window, it's dashas, and planet list. Maybe
occasionally open another window. Some power users who use other
features, want to see other windows, might end up using Window Sets..
reading astrologers who get into a patter of using one or more OTHER
windows besides the chart window might make it a set for easy opening.

Chart List Insider Info

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The first thing under the main FILE menu is about "Chart Lists". There's
one chart list open when you come into the program, and that one is called
"*-All My Charts"... it is one of four special chart lists which are always
present, they are

All My Charts (Important, Primary)

Fame
Cities
Archive

Fame and Cities are provided to you for your amusement or study. There
are three to four thousand famous people's charts in the Fame database,
and about 1000 city and country charts in the Cities list, and Archive is
empty.. it is for you to use if you want. Other than these four you can create
unlimited chart lists and name them whatever, and use them for whomever.
The idea is that you might have one called Clients, another called Family,
another called Friends and so on. Really though, most people find it's fine
with just the one ALL MY CHARTS.. which receives new charts you enter..
new charts you enter ALWAYS go into ALL MY CHARTS and in this way
charts build up in that list, which is fine, there's no limit to how long it can
be..

You can SORT the chart list by clicking the column heading titles at the top
of the list. Clicking again reverses the order.

You can search for Charts by name using the field at the bottom of the chart
list window.. be sure to check the files you want it to look in..

When you want ALL MY CHARTS back again you can select it from the
LISTS that are in a menu in the upper left corner of the chart list window..
there you can select All My Charts and it will come back anytime. If
something seems wrong with All My Charts you can rebuild this list at any
time with the button in upper right labeled "Bring back all my charts"...
Chart lists just list pointers to the actual chart records on disk.. they do
NOT contain the charts. So a chart can be in more than one list.. it can be in
many.. for the lines in the list are just pointers to the real records. Hence
there is the concept and action of REMOVING A LINE from a list (Found
under the chart list window's EDIT MENU) and DELETING A CHART.
Deleting is permanent and complete- the chart is gone. Removing it from a
list does ONLY THAT, and does not delete the chart. I suggest you use
REMOVE FROM LIST under the Edit menu in the chart list window, that
way you still have the chart.

Run The Updater

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As of version 5.2 there is a routine to update from older versions of Jyotish
Studio you have stored on your machine. It works with versions 3, 4 and 5..
all sub numbered versions of those.. it pulls the data of 3 types out of the
installed version and imports that data into 5.2 or later version you are
running it from. So the idea is that you install 5.2 (or later) and run it, and
then under FILE and on sub menu "Export/Import" you select Update from
Older Versions and it just runs and finishes, there is no user interaction.
Only run it ONCE. It grabs Charts, Chart Lists and Window Styles.. these
are the three types of data that it currently grabs and imports. There are
key data types missing from that list of 3, which will be added later in a
coming version.

Printing Charts
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You can print charts in Black and White or colors from the Printouts
window.. those are the standard reports. There you will also find the Art
Chart Color Background Charts to print which make great chart booklet
covers (good as covers on the Single File PDF feature!). But there is
another way you can print charts, and that is this: You can print the charts
ON the chart window. If you LIKE the charts on the chart window, you
might want a hi resolution print out of the same... SIMPLE just click the
button that says Print Charts on the Chart window, and select your
destination (Only Preview and Printer apply here, while PDF is a good idea
we find that feature doesn't work, it's supplied by the language and there's
nothing I can do about it's functioning). But printing the charts to your hi
resolution printer is always good. Use Photo Paper and make an object you
can love.
Find Famous People who have your placements
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If the famous people's charts are saved, you can search them for attributes
that you find interesting. There is a Search button on the chart list window.
This opens the Power Search feature. It looks through the TAGS of charts
and makes a list of charts that have what you are searching for. I know
which famous people have a chart like mine because I did this searching
before. The window allows you to specify one or multiple things you are
looking for. You put in single numbers. For example the following would
find people who have ARIES (1) for Ascendent, have Sun in 2 (Taurus) and
Jupiter in 9 (Dhanus). It would bring up me ! Martin Luther King Jr had
Aries rising and Jupiter in the 9th like me.. this is how I found that out. Be
sure to check FAME if you are looking there. To save ALL the fame records
charts you would open that list, click on one and then issue a Command/
Control - A for "Select All"... which will hi light them all, then select
"Calculate Selected Charts" from the FILE MENU that is part of the chart
list window itself.. make your selections on the little window that appears
and let her rip.. it will take awhile and it will expand your database of charts
on disk, but it will save them all so you can search them.. welcome to the
world of chart research.
Looking at Two People's Line Ups and Such
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As talked about above you can overlay a chart of one person upon another.
There is also a really cool feature that is part of Compatibility that you don't
want to miss if you are studying the charts of people together. In other
words, we often want to know how two charts get along and it's not
necessarily a relationship.. it's just life and you're curious. So run them
both through compatibility and look for the Line Ups feature.. it lists line
ups the two charts have.. this is not just relationship related... the two could
be opponents or enemies or friends, whatever, the feature gives you the
Plus and Minus line ups that the two charts share.. the feature is graphical
and cool.. you don't want to miss it. To put two people up on compatibility
just select those two charts in the list then hit the Compatibility button.. or..
click the button, and then DRAG the two people over one at a time, and
drop them onto the little squares, which are for pictures... but who enters
pictures with their charts these days.. nobody.. but the feature is there just
in case. So select and pop or drag and drop.. either way get your two charts
onto Compatibility window and use that Line Ups Feature !