Pictures

Pictures include photographs, graphs, images and any other type of graphics. DoView can insert pictures in any of the following formats: jpg, png, bmp, or gif.

Add a picture to a page:

•	To insert the picture from an existing file. Right click on a page's background and select Right-click > Picture (keyboard shortcut Alt 4)

•	To paste it from another application. Copy the image (in e.g. Word, Powerpoint, Internet Explorer, or Firefox) and paste it into DoView. Right-click on a page's background and select Right-click > Paste, (keyboard shortcut CTRL V).

Note: DoView supports transparent pictures (alpha channels). However, these are best loaded from a file rather than pasted from the windows clipboard as many applications strip the transparent part when copying the picture. A symptom of this is the appearance of ugly black blocks appearing in the pasted picture. A work-around is to avoid copy and pasting by saving the picture as a file in a format supporting transparency (e.g. png) and then loading that file into DoView.

Rotating a picture

To rotate a picture, select the picture by clicking on it and then: Right-click > Rotate > On a side

Shrinking or enlarging a picture

To shrink or enlarge a picture, click on it and then hold down a Left-Click on one of the small green squares in the four corners of the picture and drag it larger or smaller.

Note: As with any picture pasted into software, if a picture is resized from its original size there may be some distortion (e.g. if a very small picture is dragged out to be large it may become pixelated).

Add a picture to a step:

•	Select the step and Right-click > Image > Choose Picture.

You can choose how the picture will appear. The three options are:

•	Standard shape - this gives steps which include a picture a uniform appearance because all of the pictures within them have the same size (these have a width:height ratio of 3:2).

•	Cropped border - as for standard shape, but with a border cropped from the original picture.

•	Original shape - this keeps the original shape of the picture.

In addition to the thumbnail size picture included within a step, DoView also includes the original sized picture so that it can be seen on a Right-Click > Show Picture. This can be useful in presentations (Right-click > Show Picture) when you want to talk to an audience about the step and use the large version of the picture to make a point. The larger version of the picture is also included in any web page model you make (show it by a Left-Click on the picture in the web age model). There is an option to not include the original-sized picture to minimize the file size when saving a picture. This option can be checked at the time that the picture is inserted into a step (Reduce file size; do not include the original sized picture). If this option is selected it will mean that Show Picture and Left-Clicking on a picture in a web page model will NOT show the original sized version of the picture. For more information on positioning pictures within steps see the Section on steps.