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Figures & Pictures

Figures and pictures can be scaled and cropped. The space above and below a picture or figure can be adjusted and they can be given borders on any or all of their sides.

Pictures can be inserted into a line of text or be inserted between paragraphs in picture frames or as figures (pictures with a caption). Text can flow around pictures.

The position and style of the text in the caption of figures can be controlled.

Types of picture

EasiWriter can accept, Sprites, Drawfiles, GIFs, JPEGs, PNGs, Photo CD, TIFF, Animator and animated GIFs.

To insert a picture into a frame

  1. Position the caret near the end of the paragraph you want the picture frame to follow.
  2. Click on the Picture button or choose Picture from the Structures menu.

A frame will open after the paragraph containing the caret. It will be highlighted in red to show that it is selected.

  1. Drag a Picture file icon into the document.

To insert a picture into text

  1. Set the caret in the text where you want to insert the picture.
  2. Drag a Picture file icon into the document.

Flowing text around pictures

EXT can be made to flow around pictures to give special effects such as the illuminated letter at the beginning of this paragraph or the illustration to the right. The justification commands let you position the picture to the left or right, its vertical position is controlled by dragging with the Control key held down.

  1. Click in the text where you want the picture to be inserted.
  2. Drag, save or cut & paste the picture into the text.
  3. Click on either the left or right justify icon.

Notes

To move a picture

In-line pictures can be moved up and down with respect to the text that contains them. Picture frames can be moved sideways.

When you move the pointer into a selected picture it changes to a 'hand' indicating that you can move the picture.

In-line pictures

  1. Click on the picture to select it.
  2. Hold down Ctrl, press Select on the picture and drag it up or down.

Picture frames

1 Click on the picture to select it.

2 Hold down Ctrl, press Select on the picture and drag sideways, or

2 Click the Left, Right or Centre alignment icons.

Scaling a picture

Pictures can be scaled by dragging Adjust in their corners or by editing the Scale % in the Picture Format dialogue box.

The Picture Format dialogue box will appear:

  1. Click on the picture to select it.
  2. Move the pointer over one of the edges or corner of the picture frame.

The pointer changes into a double or four headed arrow indicating you can move the frame edges or corner.

3 Drag Adjust to change the scale of the picture. Hold down Shift to maintain the original proportions when dragging in the corner.

Cropping a picture

The edges of the picture frame can be moved in and out so you can see more or less of the picture. They can also be moved out to form a white space around the picture.

  1. Click on the picture to select it.
  2. Move the pointer over one of the edges or corner of the picture frame.

The pointer changes into a double or four headed arrow indicating you can move the frame edges or corner.

3 Drag Select to move the margin in or out to its new position. Hold down Shift to maintain the original proportions when dragging in the corner or

1 Double-click on the picture to open the Picture Format dialogue box.

2 Edit the crop values.

Use positive values to crop, negative values to create white space.

Figures

Figures exist to enable a caption to be associated with another element, normally a picture. It acts as a single unit in a document which will always stay on the same page or column.

Figure body

The figure body can be:

  1. A picture.
  2. A table.

Figure caption

The figure caption can be:

  1. A single paragraph.
  2. A list (remove the bullets to have multiple paragraphs).
  3. A picture.

The caption can be positioned below, above, to the left or right of the picture.

To create a figure

  1. Click on the Figure button or choose Figure from the Structure menu (Ctrl-Shift-F7).
  2. Click in the figure body and drag in a Picture or paste in a Table.
  3. Click in the caption and:

or

  1. Select a picture or table, and a paragraph or list.
  2. Click on the Figure button or choose Figure from the Structure menu (Ctrl-Shift-F7).

To reformat a figure

  1. Select the figure and click on the Style indicator or choose Change... from the Format menu.
  2. Click on the caption position icon.
  3. With the figure selected adjust the markers on the ruler.
  4. Select the caption and adjust its alignment.
  5. Select the body and adjust its alignment.

To remove a figure

  1. Select the figure.
  2. Press Delete or Backspace.

Note: it is not enough to click in the picture part of the figure - the figure itself must be selected as indicated in the Selection indicator.

OLE

If you hold down Ctrl and Double-click on a picture the application that created it will be launched.

Edit the picture and when you save it the EasiWriter document will be updated.

  1. Hold down Ctrl and Double-click on the picture - the application that created it will be launched.
  2. Make the required changes.
  3. Save the picture - the EasiWriter document will be updated automatically.

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