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External images are either located on a specific website (URL), or in a folder on a hard drive
that is accessible from your computer. Note that external images need to be available at the
time the template is merged with a record set to generate output, and that their location should
be accessible from the machine on which the template's output is produced. External images
are updated (retrieved) when the output is generated. External images can not be added via the
drag-and-drop method. Use the Select Image dialog instead (see below).
For information about referring to images in HTML or in a script, see "Resources" on page58.
Via drag-and-drop
The drag-and-drop method is a quick way to import one or more images into a template.
1. Look up the image file or image files on your computer using the Windows Explorer.
2. Select the image (or images, using Shift+click or Ctrl+click) and drag the image file from
the Explorer to the Images folder on the Resources pane at the top left.
3.
To place an image in the content, drag it from the Images folder on the Resources pane
to the content and drop it. The image will be inserted in the template at the position of the
cursor.
Via the Select Image dialog
To either import an image into a template or use an external image in a template, the Select
Image dialog can be used:
1. Position the cursor in the content where you want the image to be inserted.
2.
On the Insert menu, click Image. Or, click the Insert Image button on the toolbar. The
Select Image dialog appears.
3.
Click Resources, Disk or Url, depending on where the image is located.
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Resources lists the images that are present in the Images folder on the Resources
pane.
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Disk lists image files that reside in a folder on a hard drive that is accessible from
your computer. Click the Browse button to select a folder (or an image in a folder).
As an alternative it is possible to enter the path manually. The complete syntax
is:file://<host>/<path>. Note: if the host is"localhost", it can be omitted, resulting
infile:///<path>, for example: file:///c:/resources/images/image.jpg.
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