tag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:/discussions/suggestions/2175-image-size-for-case-from-quizletThe Mental Faculty: Discussion 2017-08-13T19:04:47Ztag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:Comment/196584042012-10-16T06:15:58Z2012-10-16T06:15:58Zimage size for case from quizlet<div><p>It looks to me that Mental Case is actually showing the image at
the correct pixel-for-pixel size. On a pc or Mac this will be
bigger, because the pixels are bigger.</p>
<p>The iPad app could zoom the photo, but it would be blurry. In
most cases, you probably don't want that.</p>
<p>We added the double tap option precisely for cases like this. It
allows you to pinch to zoom in.</p>
<p>To make the images on iPad bigger, they should be made bigger on
Quizlet. Not sure of Quizlet have size limits.</p>
<p>We will think about a possible setting for zooming images, but
the iPad app is actually showing the image at correct size.</p>
<p>Drew</p></div>drewmccormacktag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:Comment/196584042012-10-16T15:41:47Z2012-10-16T15:41:49Zimage size for case from quizlet<div><p>Thank you for the response, Drew.</p>
<p>Mental case may be showing the "correct" pixel-for-pixel size,
but in Mental Case it is not centered, and when I zoom on the image
to the same size as it is shown in Quizlet (i.e. "Photo (5)"
attached to the previous post is how I see it in the Quizlet iPad
app) it appears much more blurry than Quizlet shows it (I don't
understand why).</p>
<p>In my case, the photos are just words. I am making them myself
so I don't have to "fight" the flashcard app to get it to
table-format the way I want to see it. I can make them any pixel
size that would look best on an iPad, but <strong><em>I don't know
how to get them into Mental Case on my iPad retaining that
size</em></strong> (As a test I doubled the pixel size to 1004x762,
but Quizlet.com on my PC just shrunk it when it saved it -prior to
having anything to do with the iPad)</p>
<p>I don't have a Mac. I realize Mental Case is a Mac/iDevice
product, but it's a pretty good iDevice product in itself which I
prefer it over others.</p>
<p>Can you recommend a method/application for creating/importing
flashcards to Mental Case on my iPad retaining an optimum pixel
size?</p>
<p>Also, please consider checking out the Quizlet iPad app and
displaying images from Quizlet decks in the same resolution they
show them in their app (centered when zooming).</p>
<p>Also, I am surprised I did not read any complaints about the
Mental Case iPad app time factor for zooming images when I was
reading the knowledge base/this suggestion board, but maybe that's
because the Mac Mental Case product does a better job at sizing -I
did read you can keep the zoom open when you go from card-to-card,
but my images from Quizlet appear in Mental Case so small and not
centered...</p></div>MedicalStudent2016tag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:Comment/196584042012-10-16T15:47:32Z2012-10-16T15:47:32Zimage size for case from quizlet<div><p>I suspect Quizlet are not providing the full size images to
other App makers that they can user in their own app. So I doubt
that we can do much about it. They are probably only allowing us to
download a reduced resolution version.</p>
<p>Probably the best way to import notes without a Mac is to use
the studyarch format</p>
<p><a href=
"http://www.mentalcaseapp.com/studyarch">http://www.mentalcaseapp.com/studyarch</a></p>
<p>You can make a study archive, which is basically CSV text with
media files in a folder structure, zip it up. If you change the
extension to studyarch, you can then import it via dropbox, email,
a web server, or iTunes file sharing.</p>
<p>You then get the full sized images, without Quizlet downscaling
them.</p>
<p>Hope that helps.<br>
Kind regards,<br>
Drew</p></div>drewmccormacktag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:Comment/196584042012-10-16T19:07:56Z2012-10-16T19:07:57Zimage size for case from quizlet<div><p>Thank you again, Drew. You have solved my problem, and I am
grateful. I wish it were easier or I had a PC version of Mental
Case, but at least it works.</p>
<p>I would like to point out that the demo.zip studyarch file you
have on your website is very misleading.</p>
<p>The folder structure within this file is \archive\groups which
leads you to believe it was originally demo\archive\groups\ and the
demo folder was zipped.</p>
<p>I could not create folder structure following this outline and
get it to successfully import. I had to zip up the archive folder
and import that. This leads me to believe whoever created demo.zip
actually zipped up archive.zip and renamed it to demo.zip. This
distinction may not be obvious to someone with experience, but it
from a fresh perspective it is not obvious that demo.zip is
actually archive.zip renamed to demo.zip. It caused some
frustration in trying to get it to work.</p>
<p>Otherwise the website provides great instructions and demo.</p>
<p>Thank you again.</p></div>MedicalStudent2016tag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:Comment/196584042012-10-16T19:10:10Z2012-10-16T19:10:10Zimage size for case from quizlet<div><p>Glad it worked out. Thanks for the feedback.</p>
<p>Drew</p></div>drewmccormacktag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:Comment/196584042012-10-17T21:00:02Z2012-10-17T21:00:04Zimage size for case from quizlet<div><p>I'd like to thank you again and offer a little more
feedback:</p>
<p>Please consider telling people they need to use an application
which preserves unicode in .CSV files or they lose all their greek
and other symbols they put into data.csv files. (Excel = fail)</p>
<p>Please consider telling people that image file names within
data.csv are case sensitive.</p>
<p>This information could go into <a href=
"http://www.mentalcaseapp.com/studyarch/">http://www.mentalcaseapp.com/studyarch/</a>
or in a readme within demo.zip.</p>
<p>I can't tell you how much of my time these two items wasted.</p>
<p>It really blows my mind that it's 2012, and I still cannot
purchase an awesome flashcard app for my PC. Given the quality of
Mental Case on the iPad, I'd bet Mental Case on the Mac is pretty
awesome, but I'm a PC user, and I'm formatting pictures in one
program, editing CSV files manually, zipping, importing, etc. It's
ridiculous!</p></div>MedicalStudent2016tag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:Comment/196584042012-10-17T21:13:43Z2012-10-17T21:13:43Zimage size for case from quizlet<div><p>We'll look at adding that advice. Thanks.</p>
<p>I believe excel can do Unicode, but I think you need to use TSV,
and choose the UTF16 format.</p>
<p>I sympathize with you that there is no good windows app. We
don't have any experience with windows, so couldn't do anything
good there. All I can really suggest is to move to a Mac ;)</p>
<p>Drew</p></div>drewmccormacktag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:Comment/196584042012-10-17T21:28:46Z2012-10-17T21:28:51Zimage size for case from quizlet<div><p>Argghhh... With Excel I was able to get a .txt file with unicode
that had tab separated columns. I tried renaming it .csv to see if
Mental Case would figure it out, but it didn't import. It didn't
occur to me to just name it .tsv -and I didn't want to do a
find/replace (tabs/commas) every time I update the data file... So
I downloaded open office because I didn't want to be tied to
internet for GoogleDocs...</p>
<p>Thanks for that.. I'm gonna switch back to Excel and use
tabs...</p>
<p>I spent $900 on an iPad, and lots of money on PC software... Buy
me a Mac, and I will happily switch ;o)</p></div>MedicalStudent2016tag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:Comment/196584042012-10-17T21:40:37Z2012-10-17T21:40:37Zimage size for case from quizlet<div><p>For $900, you can get a Mac mini, or for a $100 more, a Macbook
Air. That's a pretty expensive iPad.</p>
<p>But I see your point, of course.</p>
<p>Drew</p></div>drewmccormacktag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:Comment/196584042012-11-02T13:14:58Z2012-11-02T13:14:59Zimage size for case from quizlet<div><p>I just wanted to offer an update and some positive feedback:</p>
<p>Thank you again, Drew!!</p>
<p>For all my whining about the hoops I have to jump through to get
flashcards on my iPad/iPhone the way I want them, after I got past
the learning curve I couldn't be more happy... I'm a PC user who
loves your Mac-centric Mental Case app for my iPad/iPhone. I
couldn't find any other program that allows me this level of
flexibility and ease of use. I don't know exactly how large my
images can be, but I often make them 1000x800 pixels, and they look
great in Mental Case on the iPad. There's only one other app that
comes close, and I swear some MBA bought it 5 years ago and rakes
in the money with a crumby product with no updates or support. It's
got so many problems I don't bother with it... It's got a pretty
dress with no substance...</p>
<p>I encourage you to make some sort of "guide" to dumb-it-down for
PC users on how to use Excel or OpenOffice to create flash cards.
It's a breeze once you get past the learning curve. When I catch a
typo I just update the .xls file, save it as a unicode .txt file,
rename it as data.tsv, zip it, import it to the Mental Case app on
iTunes, open the app on the iPad, and it imports... then I just
delete the old "container" or whatever the fancy word for it
is...</p>
<p>It's funny that you don't even have a PC application for Mental
Case, but I swear it's still the best way of doing flashcards on
the iPad/iPhone from a PC...</p>
<p>Thanks again!</p></div>MedicalStudent2016tag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:Comment/196584042012-11-02T13:18:26Z2012-11-02T13:18:26Zimage size for case from quizlet<div><p>Thanks for the feedback. It is really nice to hear a happy
customer. (We usually only hear from the unhappy ones.)</p>
<p>It would be really great if you took your email and posted it as
a review in the App Store ;-) That would really help us.</p>
<p>Kind regards,<br>
Drew</p></div>drewmccormacktag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:Comment/196584042012-11-02T17:20:32Z2012-11-02T17:20:33Zimage size for case from quizlet<div><p>Done. Thanks again!</p></div>MedicalStudent2016tag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:Comment/196584042012-11-02T18:16:21Z2012-11-02T18:16:21Zimage size for case from quizlet<div><p>Fantastic. Thanks!</p>
<p>Drew</p></div>drewmccormacktag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:Comment/196584042012-11-10T04:19:42Z2012-11-10T04:19:44Zimage size for case from quizlet<div><p>Are you holding out on me?!?</p>
<p>So I was thinking about running a Mac emulator on my PC...
Another exciting Friday night... I watched your Mental Case for Mac
video, and you can put VIDEO in flashcards!!??!?! That's not in the
demo study archive on the site.</p>
<p>Does the iPad app support video? If so, what's the tagline for
that in the Data.TSV? (Is it "1 Video" and "2 Video"? Does the
order matter for those tags in row 1? What video formats are
supported?).</p>
<p>The Excel thing is pretty powerful... One of my favorite things
is how I can have 100 images in a folder, and copy/paste the
directory structure to a column and fiddle with it to have 100
images on side 2 of flashcards in whatever order I want so I can
have an image editor open along side the excel spreadsheet and go
through the images one at a time as I add questions about the
images to the Excel spreadsheet for side 1 and crop images or
circle answers on the images or copy images if I want to ask more
than one question about a specific image. I didn't get a good feel
from watching the video on your website as to the process of
creating flashcards using the Mac application I know, I know, this
makes sense because you offer a 14 day free trial so I'll find a
Mac and check it out...</p>
<p>Thanks again!</p></div>MedicalStudent2016tag:mentalfaculty.tenderapp.com,2010-10-19:Comment/196584042012-11-10T10:20:54Z2012-11-10T10:20:54Zimage size for case from quizlet<div><p>Video is not yet supported on iPad, but is coming. Tag is
'Video'. Formats will be anything that iPad can play, which is
basically mpeg4/h264 formats and QuickTime.</p>
<p>Drew</p></div>drewmccormack