Embedding images and movies in a standalone

[Marielle Lange]

Dear Paul,

This is a problem that always puzzles newcomers. As long as you  
insert images, things are usually fine. If for some reason you cut  
and paste or copy and paste the image, this remains fine on the  
computer on which you edited the images, but all image references get  
messed up when others view the stack on another computer.

The best way to cope with this is to keep all images in a folder and  
insert them on opencard.  If this is undesirable (copyright on  
images) or not practical, best is to create a "catalogue" stack in  
which you insert all the pictures and movies (being careful to ever  
cut and paste any image or movie), then make a reference to the  
picture in the catalogue stack you just created. This won't increase  
the size of your stack.

BTW, I have been teaching in neuroscience. I would be very interested  
to get to see your material. Know that I also have a collection of  
brain anatomy or brain imaging images on my computer. You will also  
find a collection of lecture slides at: <http:// 
tutorials.lexicall.org/wiki/tiki-list_file_gallery.php? 
find=&galleryId=1&offset=20>.  You also have that small javascript  
that your students may find useful to practice the name of the gyri  
and sucli of the brain: <http://homepages.lexicall.org/mlange/ 
teaching/CNL/helpers/lateral.html>.

Best,
Marielle

> I have created a large project to teach brain imaging, with  
> hundreds of
> images and a few Quicktime movies. When I build a standalone, all  
> the images
> appear when I run the Mac version, but there are only gray  
> placeholders on
> Windows. I used the Image tool on the Tools palette and indicated a  
> path to
> the image in the Object Inspector.
>
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