Image Mapper

The Spider Writer Image Mapper aids in creating and editing client-side image maps.  It can modify both MAP and AREA tags. This feature can be found on the Tools menu.

The Image Mapper is an external application to the Spider Writer environment.  See the Image Mapper help file for more information on its usage.

Even though the Image Mapper is an external application to the Spider Writer environment, there are several ways for the Image Mapper to interact with Spider Writer. 

Editing Image Maps in a Document

If there is an image map within the current Spider Writer document and you would like edit it with the Image Mapper, you can do one of two things.

Editing Image Map Directly
To directly edit an image map in the Image Mapper, move the cursor within a MAP or AREA tag in Document Source view and right-click on the tag. On the context menu that appears, choose the Edit Image Map command. The Image Mapper will open and allow you to edit the image map visually. Press the Save and Exit command to save your changes or the Cancel command to abort making any changes to the image map. The Image Mapper will close and control will return to the Spider Writer application.
Editing Image Map Via Cut and Paste
To edit an image map in the Image Mapper by cutting and pasting, highlight the MAP tag block (which should encompass one or more AREA tags) and copy it to the clipboard.  Open the Image Mapper and use the Paste function to visually load in the image map. The Image Mapper will allow you to edit the image map visually. To update the Spider Writer document with the results of the image map editing session, use the Copy to Clipboard function in the Image Mapper. Then return to Spider Writer, place the cursor at the insertion point and paste the image map into the document.