Image Improvements in TX Text Control 12.0

New Image Attributes Dialog Box

A new tabbed dialog box has been implemented to set and adjust all properties of inserted images. It may be used to set general attributes such as size, wrapping style, scaling and text distances.

As of TX Text Control 12.0, the compression and resolution of exported images can be set. The last tab page of the new dialog box allows end users to set the filename, format, resolution and compression of exported images. Similarly, whether image data should be embedded in the main document, or stored as external files may be set.

The saving style specifies whether the image is embedded in the document, a reference to the original file is inserted or the image should be exported to an external image file.

The resolution can be specified for all types of images. If you choose to export the image as a JPG, additionally the compression quality can be adjusted in a range from 1% to 100%.

The screenshots below illustrate the three tabs of the new intuitive dialog box:

Layout and Position

Size and Distance

Saving Options

New Event for Images

Also new in TX Text Control 12.0 is an event for images. By trapping this event, developers can add a pop-up menu on a right-mouse click, for example, to offer end users direct access to these new dialog boxes, clipboard operations or similar actions.

Anchored to a paragraph

In prior versions of TX Text Control, images and OLE objects could either be inserted as a single character or geometrically positioned, relative to the complete document. Version 12 of TX Text Control introduces a third method that is called anchored to a paragraph. This means that the text still flows around the image or OLE object, but the geometrical position is relative to the paragraph to which it is anchored. If more text is inserted before the paragraph, the object is moved along with the text. Consider the following screenshots:

Anchored to paragraph image, center horizontal aligned image

Image Attributes dialog box

The image in the screenshot above left is anchored to the paragraph with a centered horizontal alignment, so that the text still flows around the image and the image is moved with the paragraph.

Additionally, images can now be anchored at an exact position on a specified page. Using this new layout setting, images can be placed at exactly the same position on all pages in a document.