Introduction
The editor allows you to insert an image into your document.
How to insert an image
- Place your cursor in the provision that you would like to insert image after
- Select to insert an image by:
- Right-click menu in the Editor View “Insert image”
- From the upper tool bar, select Insert > Insert image
- The system will present a dialogue box
- To upload an image…
- Click on the Upload button
- Browse to the folder on your computer that the image is saved
- Click on the Open button
- To select an image that has already been uploaded…
- Click on the image in the ‘File’ list
- Add alternate text (text which describes the image to assist visually-impaired users)
- You can optionally add an image caption and adjust the image alignment
- Click Insert
- The system will insert the image on the line below the text in your provision
How to delete an image
- Click on the image in the Editor
- Select ‘img block’ from the breadcrumb and click ‘backspace’
- The image will be removed from the document without affecting the element it was inserted in
How to update image information
- Click on the edit button next to the image in the document
- Make changes to any of the fields in the “Manage Image Properties” dialogue box and click Update button
- The system will update the image in the document with the changes
How to create high resolution images from Word
- Create your form/notice/table in Word (making sure it doesn't get split over two pages)
- Save the word doc as a PDF
- Open the PDF in Acrobat Reader (not in your browser)
- In Acrobat, go to the Edit menu> preferences...> General
- Check the box "Use fixed resolution for Snapshot tool images" and enter 300 in the resolution box and click Ok
- Go to the Edit menu again and select "Take a Snapshot"
- Use the snapshot tool to draw a selection box around the form/notice/etc., staying as close to the edges of the form etc. as possible
- Open Paint application
- Paste in snapshot from clipboard
- Save as jpeg
- Use the normal Lawmaker insert image function to insert it into your document
Hints and tips
- The system will calculate the size of the image based on its properties and will display the image at a relative size alongside the text in the Editor. The PDF will show its true size based on the mm height and width assigned.
- The system will warn you when the image quality is less than the recommended size of 300 dpi, required for print publishing
- You can only adjust the height or the size as the system will maintain the image aspect ratio
- The system will save the image files against the document version so that only users with permission to see the document will view the images
- When you duplicate a document version which contains images, these image files will be mapped to the duplicated version
- Images must currently be either Jpeg or Tiff format
- When you delete an image from the document, the image will not be removed from list of images available in the document version so can be reinserted if required