Nisus Writer Pro - Manual (Page 169)

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Floating images
Any image you can display in your document you can cause to float so that it appears above,
behind, or alongside the text. You can also have the text wrap around the image in various ways.
Floating images are explained in more detail in “Working with Floating Images” beginning on page
155; briefly, you can cause an inline image to float by selecting it and:
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choose (check; turn on) the menu command Tools > Shapes > Wrap Text Around Shape
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choose Moves with Paragraph or Position on page of ¶ from the Placement pop-up menu in
the Shape Wrap palette.
Once the image is floating, rather than inline, a number of additional tools become available. You
can always convert a floating image into an inline image, but the effects applied to it when it was
floating will be removed.
As you work with floating images, keep these guidelines in mind
• You can copy, paste, as well as drag and drop floating images like any other object in your text.
• Nisus Writer Pro cannot use Find and Replace tools to locate and replace floating images,
though it can find and replace text in floating text boxes.
• You can select numerous floating images and modify them all at once.
Shapes
Nisus Writer Pro also supports the ability to create different shapes. These range from various lines
and arrows, to brackets and braces as well as assorted geometric forms that you can modify. In
addition you can create a variety of text and callout boxes and fill them with text that links from
one to the next.
The tools for working with shapes are explained in “Working with Shapes” beginning on page 165;
briefly, you can place a shape in your document by any of the following methods (in this context, a
“text box” is a shape):
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choose any of the shapes or text boxes available from the menu Tools > Insert Shape
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choose any shape available from the Shape button or the Text Box button on the Toolbar
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choose any shape available from the three Draw Floating Shape buttons at the top of the
Shapes palette.
Once you have a shape in your document, a number of additional tools become available. You can
always convert a shape from a floating image into an inline image, but some of the effects applied to
it when it was floating may be removed.
As you work with floating images, keep these guidelines in mind:
• When you insert a shape
• you enter a special mode and cannot enter text in the normal text area of your document;
• a banner appears across the top of your document instructing you to “Click and drag to
draw the new shape.”
• a banner appears across the bottom of your document instructing you to “Press the
escape key (ESC) to cancel.”
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Undoing and redoing are disabled.
• Nisus Writer Pro can use Find and Replace tools to locate and replace text in floating text and
callout boxes but not the shapes themselves.
• You can select numerous shapes at any one time and apply the same attributes to them all at
once.
Importing Images
You can import any normal image format including PDF, EPS, JPEG, PNG and PICT images directly
into Nisus Writer Pro.
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You can simply drag an image in from the Desktop.
Or…
1. Choose the menu command Insert > Image….
2. Locate the image file you want.
3. Check Link to File in the variant of the Open dialog that appears as illustrated in Figure 167 to
link inserted image to original file path.
These linked images update automatically if the file changes on disk. Double-clicking a linked
image opens the original file in an external application. Mac OS X opens the image. The
application it uses is dependent on the type of image file it is, and the file type associations you
may have set in the Finder (eg: Open With settings).