Managing Images

The Images dialog lists the names of all raster images loaded into the WiseImage document.

To open the Images dialog

Choose Images from the Tools menu or click button on the Properties toolbar.

To change the properties of an image, select it from the list or from the preview window. Multiple selection is unabled.

Name

In this box type in the logical name of the image.

File Name

Displays the selected image’s filename.

Read-Only and Visible attributes

These attributes control the ability to change the images. They are represented by Visible and Locked ( and icons) and two checkboxes in the Details section of the dialog. TRUE and FALSE values can also be set for these attributes in the Details list or in the Inspector window.
 Visibility of images can also be toggled on/off with the Show/Hide Rasters command, see (Controlling the display of an object’s line width). This operation does not change the visibility attribute of images

References

Images are created or opened once but can be inserted (and displayed) many times. Reference shows the number of times the image has been inserted in the document. For example, if an image is selected, copied, and pasted, then the Reference field will contain 2.
If the image is not inserted anywhere in the document, then Reference will contain 0. It means that image data still exists in the document and is ready to be shown again; to purge it, you must press the Delete button

Colour

Displays the colour of an image (for monochrome images). A colour can be chosen to distinguish between images in the Inspector window or Properties toolbar. The By layer option assigns the layer colour to images that belong to this particular layer; and By block assigns the colour of the block to an image that is part of the block.

Layer

the layer to which an image belongs can be seen and the image moved from one layer to another (actually the image does not “move”; but the Layer attribute of the image changes).

Details

This button opens the full list of image properties. For example, rotate an image by specifying a non-zero value in Angle or make it opaque by setting FALSE in Transparent Color (for monochrome images). the same properties list can be seen in the Inspector window for a selected image.

Preview

This is the standard WiseImage Preview window. It can display the entire image or zoom to an area. Buttons and options are described on page (Preview window).

Buttons

	New	Creates a new image.
	Delete	Purges an image from the document.
	Save	Saves an image.
	Insert Page	Inserts an page from file
	Save As	Saves an image to a new file.
	Embed	Embeds the selected image. The image is not linked to the file and exists only in the document. See the description of embedded images below.
	Up	Moves the selected image or page of multipage TIFF up. For multipage TIFF this is a way to rearrange pages before saving.
	Down	Moves the selected image or page of multipage TIFF down. Moves selected image or page of multipage TIFF up. For multipage TIFF this is a way to rearrange pages before saving.
	Cut by Horizontal	Cuts the selected page by specified horizontal line
	Cut by Vertical	Cuts the selected page by specified vertical line
	Cut Horizontaly	Cuts the selected page in half horizontaly
	Cut Verticaly	Cuts the selected page in half verticaly
	Combine pages	Combines two pages as top bottom page
	Combine pages	Combines two pages as left right page
	Run Script	Runs the specified script on the selected pages
	Undo	Undo the last operation. Supports the one step only!

Embedded vs. Linked images

There is a possibility to insert an image in document from a file, process and save it. During its work, WiseImage keeps image file name and allows to save raster image at any time with the the Save button from the Images dialog.
WiseImage can also process images, which are actually located in the document. Any linked image can be embedded in WiseImage document. To embed a linked image, select this one in the Images dialog and press Embed button . The word appears in File Name.
Embedded images can be created by applying the WiseImage commands New Image, New Image from Selection (see description on Creating new image from vector and raster selection), New Image from Scanner. They are also generated by WiseImage procedures that create images such as binarization and colour separation.