Overlays and images

When adding images to the design, make sure they are in one of the supported formats (JPG, TIFF, GIF, BMP). You should also consider printer resolution.

When adding overlays (static Fragments), they must be in one of the supported formats you can open as a StoryTeller document, that is SSD, LXF, XHTML, RTF, PDF and TIFF.

Images and overlays can be rotated and inserted inline in a Story. You can also resize them.

Resizing of images is enabled by default. You can disable resizing or select to resize proportionally, which means the height and width ratio is retained while resizing. You can also enable resizing of the bounding box of the image or overlay. In this case, the size of the image itself is not affected. This can be useful for aligning of images.

If you open the StoryTeller tool from Design Center, you can add overlays and images from the resource set. Note that in the resource set, the Overlay resource type is only applicable for overlays in LXF format. For other file formats, you should use the resource type that is suggested by default when importing the resource type. For example, for PDF files you must use the Sample resource type.

When you reference an overlay or image in your design, the overlay or image must be available to other users of the document, e.g. the developer adding dynamic data to your design.

If you run StoryTeller outside of a Design Center Project, you can make the images or overlays available to other users by:

•	Embedding the images and overlays in the document.

•	Specifying a relative path that you have agreed upon with the other users, for example ./overlays/my_overlay.lxf

You can add overlays and images by referencing them via a URI. The URI identifies the image via FTP, HTTP, local files (file://<path>), or as a Design Center resource (dcresource:<resource_id>), that you can browse to via the Insert Image or Insert Fragment dialog.

For authenticated access over FTP or HTTP you can specify the URI as in:

http://user.pwd@host:port/<path>

To add an image or overlay

See Adding objects.

To embed an image or overlay

Right-click the image or fragment and select Embed Resource.