Tutorial: Add a Bitmap Image

Estimated time: 2 minutes.

In this lesson, you will add a BMP image to the drawing.  This lesson assumes you have completed the previous lesson.

  1. Click on the Tutorial Project layer name (upper-left) to make it active.
  2. Click on the Raster (Bitmap) button or choose Tools | Raster (BMP, JPG, TIFF).
     
  3. Draw a rectangular area to the right of the map by clicking and holding the mouse cursor in the upper-left corner of the page and dragging down and to the right. Release the mouse button when you’ve got an area drawn like the blue rectangle below:

The program will display a window where you’ll select the raster image file name and set scaling.

  1. Raster Tab:
    1. Picture: Click the small open-file button at the upper prompt to browse for the sample file: 1955 Airphoto.png, and double-click on that file name. This file should reside in the My Documents\RockWorks17 Data\Samples folder.
    2. Link: Click on the Link radio button
    3. Best Fit: Choose this option so that ReportWorks will keep the horizontal to vertical aspect ratio at 1:1 as you size the bitmap.
    4. Layer: This should default to the Tutorial Project layer. 
       
  2. Outline Tab:  Click on this tab, displayed behind the Raster tab.
    1. Style: Choose None by clicking the down-arrow button.
       
  3. Click the Apply button at the bottom of the window, and you’ll now see the image displayed on the page.
     
  4. Click the Close button to close the dialog box.
     
  5. Adjust the image’s position on the layout sheet by clicking and dragging it. Remember that you can use the Layers to make different items active/inactive. Within the active layer, you can also use the right-click | Send to Back or Bring to Front options to adjust the stacking order.
     
  6. Choose File | Save to save the layout thus far.
     

Inserting RockWorks Bitmaps


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