Inserting Images

You can insert images to any location inside a topic. Use the alignment buttons in the tool bar to control the position of an image.

To insert an image from a file

Images are not actually part of the text after insertion. Following HTML standard, they are links from within the topic file to a separate image file. Thus, it is necessary to have images available as separate files in JPEG of GIF format.

the image insertion dialog

The image insertion window has two functions. It lets you maintain the contents of the 'images' directory, that is created by HelpExpert automatically as part of your documentation project and it lets you select and shape the images, you would like to insert to a topic.

The list on the left shows all image files already present in the 'images' directory of your documentation project. To add image files from other locations to the repository, button 'Browse' is used.

Upon selection of an image from the list, it is 'shrinked to fit' the current size of the preview area adjusting fields 'Width' 'Height' and 'Scale' accordingly. You can change the insertion size of the image by changing these fields again before pressing the 'OK' button.

How images are linked

HelpExpert maintains images in a separate directory automatically. It is important to know that this 'images' directory is maintained by HelpExpert and should not be manipulated without care.

To be independent of any original locations image files are linked from on your local environment, HelpExpert creates a copy of the image file and places it into the 'images' directory that was created when the documentation project was created. The link between the image and the text content is then made into this 'images' directory. The 'images' directory will be copied by HelpExpert into the resulting help set once the help set is created later.