Menus

The menus contain the following items:

The File menu contains commands that allow you to open, close, and save images, save the current view as an image, and quit the application.  The options to edit and save preferences and to set the default window size and position are in the File menu as well.

The Edit menu allows you to copy the HTML clipping to the clipboard.

The Transform menu contains commands that allow you to modify the image on screen.  It contains options to flip the image horizontally or vertically, rotate 90˚ clockwise or counterclockwise, rotate 180˚, show the image sizer (see below), and snap the window the fit the scaled image (Snap to Scale).  It also has options to show the image at quarter, half, normal, and double size, as well as full screen.  Note that using these presets automatically switches DropImage into viewing Mode 2.

The Special menu contains commands that allow you go to the registration web site and enter your registration code after registering.  Once your payment has been processed by Kagi, I will email you a registration code.

Image Sizer

The Transform menu also has the "Image Sizer" option.  This menu item brings up a dialog that allows you to specify the width and height of the image window.  Depending on the mode that DropImage is set to use, this may also represent the size of the image itself.  If you hit "Default", Image Sizer will suggest the image size that it thinks you might want.  You can type in any size and Image Sizer will accomodate you.

You can scale the image sizer in absolute size (pixels) or in percentage.  The percentage can apply the the original width and height of the image or the scaled width and height, depending upon the option selected.

IMPORTANT: If you hit Default twice (or command-period twice), the dialog will go away with no resizing taking place.  If you did not mean to bring up the Image Sizer, this is how you can get rid of it.

NOTE: In order for this to be truly useful in scaling images for export, Image Sizer will allow you to scale the image smaller than the window would normally allow.  If you hit "Default" and then "Apply", your window will be returned to its unscaled size.

Using this feature along with the "Save View As..." option in the File menu will allow you to save out an image at any width and height that you choose.  

If you have a 640x480 image that you wish to save as a 320x240 image, here are the steps:

1) Set the mode to Mode 3.  You can Mode 2 if you prefer, but if the proportions are not correct when you resize then you will not fill the entire pixel area.  If you use Mode 2, use the "Snap To Scale" menu item to scale the window to the image.

2) bring up the Image Sizer.  Type 320 and 240 in the width and Height boxes, and hit Apply.

3) The image is now displayed at 320x240.  Choose "Save View As..." from the File menu and save the file.

Miscellaneous Options

The Preferences in the File Menu allow you to set two other user-interface related items in DropImage.  The first is a checkbox for "Change Dropped File Ownership to DropImage".  What this means is that if this box is checked, when you drop an image onto DropImage, that image will take on the creator code of DropImage.  As a result, the next time you want to open that image, double-clicking on it in the Finder will open it in DropImage.

The other user-interface item determines how the sizes of images are displayed.  Specifically, Image Size Display has three options.  Option 1 displays all image sizes in Kilobytes (thousands of bytes). Option 2 displays all images in bytes.  Option 3 displays images smaller than 1 Kilobyte as bytes, and larger images in Kilobytes.