Image Library Import

Monte Goulding monte at sweattechnologies.com
Tue Sep 2 18:20:01 EDT 2003


> Monte-
>
> The Import File... button on my computer is dead. It's a nice blue, but
> nothing happens. Does it work on yours?
>
> And the 'all images in folder button' does, in my computer, have a work
> around.

It seems to only work for user created libraries and not for teh "This
Stack" option.
>
> I made a new card. Went to File-Import as control-All images in folder.
> Selected a folder and all the images were imported onto that card.
>
> Then went to the Image Library window that I already had open (not sure
> if that makes a difference) to the image tab.  Clicked on the Objects
> tab, then back on the Image tab, and all the images on the card were
> brought into the library.
>
> the bad news is that deleting an image from the image library also
> deletes it from the card and deleting from the card also deletes from
> the library.

Create a new library and import them there. That way the images will be
independant of your stack.
>
> The other bad part is that the library image box is just a window into
> the original image, and most of the time I can't tell what the image
> is. It didn't minimize the image enough to identify it.

That's what I meant about changing the dimensions of each image box.
>
> Is that the way it's all supposed to work? Doesn't seem right.
>

Regards

Monte




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