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Background images
Severalpartsoftemplates,suchassectionsandmedia,andelementssuchaspositionedboxes,can
haveabackgroundimage.Right-clicktheelementandclicktheBackgroundtabtoselectanimageto
beusedastheelement'sbackgroundimage.See"Backgroundcolorand/orimage"onpage284and
"UsingaPDFfileorotherimageasbackground"onpage130.
Tip: EditingPDFfilesintheDesignerisnotpossible,butwhenthey'reusedasasection'sback-
ground,youcanaddtextandotherelements,suchasabarcode,tothem.
ThequickestwaytocreateaPrinttemplatebasedonaPDFfileistoright-clickthePDFfileinthe
WindowsExplorerandselectEnhance with Connect.Alternatively,startcreatinganewPrint
templatewithaWizard,usingthePDF-basedPrinttemplate(see"CreatingaPrinttemplatewith
aWizard"onpage116).
TouseaPDFfileasbackgroundimageforanexistingsection,see"UsingaPDFfileorother
imageasbackground"onpage130.
Filling optional whitespace
Conditionalcontentanddynamictables,whenusedinaPrintsection,mayormaynotleaveanempty
spaceatthebottomofthelastpage.Tofillthatspace,ifthereisany,animageoradvertcanbeused
asa'whitespaceelement';see"Whitespaceelements:usingoptionalspaceattheendofthelastpage"
onpage135.
HTMLtag:img
Whenyouaddelements,suchastext,imagesoratable,tothecontentofatemplate,youareactually
constructinganHTMLfile.ItispossibletoeditthesourceoftheHTMLfiledirectlyintheDesigner;see
"EditingHTML"onpage171.
Inthesection'ssourcefile,imagesare<img>elements.The<img>taghasatleastfourattributes:src,
alt,widthandheight.srcspecifiestheURLoftheimage.altcontainsthealternatetext;see"Set-
tinganalternatetext"onpage244.
Thevalueoftheattributescanbechangedviaascript;see"Attributes"onpage172.
Addingimages
Thissectionexplainsthedifferencebetweenimportedandexternalimagesanddescribesanumberof
waystoaddimagestoatemplate.
Note: TheConnectimagecachesizeislimitedto100MB.Thisallowsmostoutputjobstorun
faster.However,ifajobrequiresmorethan100MBsofimagefiles,thentheConnectimage
cachesizecanbeincreasedtocaterforsuch.PleasecontactOLSupportforinstructionsonhow
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