Images in the Doc pane

The Doc pane (and its little brother, the Item Editor) are ideal places to store images, either as part of a larger document, or as a simple viewer of images.

1. Inserting Images in a document

1.1 Using Copy / Paste

  • For an existing local image file: Copy the file (using Windows Explorer) and Paste (or Paste Special). Select the "File List" clipboard format. This will link to the existing image file
  • For an image in another document / web page: Copy the image (common method is right-click > Copy Image) and Paste Special. Then select one of
    • Bitmap Image clipboard format. This will create a new local copy of the image (stored in the YourIQBase..SNDB.Files\ItemIDXXXX_files folder)
    • HTML clipboard format. This will link to the actual file / URL

1.2 Using Drag / Drop

  • To create a new item, use Windows Explorer to  drag an image file to a grid. The Add File dialog will show. Select Doc pane as the Link storage. The new item will show the image in the Doc pane
  • To drag-drop an image to an existing document, see the next section

1.3 Using the Insert Image Dialog

in the Doc pane, click the + button > Image ... (or  Menu > Insert > Image). The Insert Image dialog will show:

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  • Click the Browse button or Double-click to select a local file
  • Right-click > Paste the image path or URL (previously copied to the clipboard)
  • Click in the large text box and paste
  • Drag an image file / URL over this dialog
  • Click OK

2. Editing Images

Double-click on an image to open the image properties dialog

  • The image width and height is shown
  • Clear both to reset the size to the original image size
  • Clear the height to have it automatically calculated from the width

It is also possible to single-click on an image and resize it using the sizing handles

3. Auto-Fit Images

  • Use Menu > View > Auto-Fit Image to ensure that images are scaled down perfectly fit in the Doc pane window (Ctrl+Shift+A)
  • Images smaller than the Doc pane window are not affected