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2) Position an object at the position desired within the report. This object is to be the reference object for the positioning of the other objects.
3) You now select the first object you wish to move in relation to another object.
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Gray selection markers will appear around the object selected.4) Keep the [Shift] key depressed and select the reference object.
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Both objects now have selection frames around them. The selection mark- ers of the object you last selected are gray and the other one’s selection markers are white.5) Use the first buttons of the Align button bar to align all objects that have white selection markers in relation to the object that has the gray selection markers. Click, e. g., the Center Horizontal button to move the object selected to the left or to the right until all center lines are in alignment - i. e., in the same position.
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Objects will only be moved to the edge of the page and no further.Image Objects
Background information
Image object You cannot insert images into a report directly. You have to first create an image ob- ject to define the size and position of the image as well as its properties. After inser- tion of the image object, the image object remains empty. You can identify an empty image object by the fact that the area reserved for an image is hatched.
Inserting an image object
Click the Image button located in the Report Objects button bar to insert an image object into a report.
Inserting images Use the mouse to drag an image from the image manager or directly from an image database onto an existing image object. Keeping the left mouse button depressed, move the mouse onto the image object within the report window. When you release the left mouse button, the image will be assigned to the report document.
You can insert a number of images simultaneously into a report. Create a new report page that has at least one image object. Select the desired images in the image da- tabase or in the image manager and drag the selected images onto the first image object.
If the number of images selected is greater than the number of image objects repre- sented on the current report page, your image analysis program will automatically add any pages needed. The added pages use the page template of the active page.
Sequence when in- serting
The sequence of the images inserted into the report is determined by the sequence in which you select them from an image database. Mark the images in the order in which you want them to be inserted into a report. To do this, depress the [Ctrl] key and mark the images with the left mouse button. The numbers in the top right corner of each thumbnail represent the order of the selection.
The images from the image manager are always inserted in the sequence of the im- age buffers. The order in which they were selected is of no significance.
Image types You can insert all image types which can be loaded by your image analysis program into a report.
Generally, the images are inserted into a report in the way they are shown in the im- age window. For example, this means that an 16-bit image is inserted into a report with the current display LUT.
Warning Please note that you cannot reload an image already inserted into a report into your image analysis program.
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If your image analysis program supports multidimensional image types, you will find an additional tab in the image properties which enables you to determine which di- mensions are to be acquired in the report for an empty image object.
Print magnification An image’s print size within a report depends on the image object properties selected and on image calibration. The following is generally true:
print size = print magnification x image size
Print magnification The print magnification is the absolute magnification at which the image is printed out on paper. Your image analysis program determines print magnification via the print size and the absolute image size.
Print size The print size is the size the image is printed on paper. Without any automatic label- ling, the print size of the image will correspond exactly to the size of the image object. If you have the magnification or the scale shown, the print size of the image will be less than that of the image object.
Image size The image size is the actual size of the image. It is determined by image calibration. An image that is 500 pixels in width and calibrated at 0.5 µm/pixel has an absolute image width of 500x0.5 µm = 250 µm. Your image analysis program determines absolute im- age size via image information.
Rotate image The report generator enables images to be rotated 90°. Rightclick in a report window. You will find the Rotate button bar under the Button Bars command. Mark the image object and select one of the two buttons to rotate an image 90° clockwise or counter clockwise.
The illustration shows the inserted image in three different available magnifications in the ob- ject properties. The im- age object is the same size each time. A frame indicates the size of the image object. There are two different predefined magnifications showing different image seg- ments.
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Step-by-step
Inserting images from the image manager into a report
1) Load the images that you want inserted into the report into the image manager.
2) Press [F8] to open the Preferences dialog box and select the Report tab.
3) You’ll be making two fundamental decisions concerning how images are treated in the report in the Image group.
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Create image copies: you decide whether images are to be saved along with the report or whether you’d rather insert them as a link to an existing image file.•
Use thumbnails instead of full images: Select either a high-resolution im- age display or thumbnail. This selection only affects the display of an im- age on the monitor and not the image quality in the actual printout.4) Click OK to close the dialog box.
5) Generate a new report based on the "Normal" template.
6) Insert at least one image object. To do so, click the Image button located in the
Report Objects button bar.
7) Pull an image via drag&drop right out of the image manager onto the image ob- ject within the report.
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Changing the print size of an image
1) In order to display an image at a different magnification level, select the image object by leftclicking on it.
2) Click the Properties button in the Report Objects button bar to alter any of sev- eral image object properties - especially, print size.
3) Click the Image Properties tab. This is where properties, specifically for image objects are made available. You can alter the image properties (that have been proposed within the report template) for individual images within a report at any time.
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The Fit image into the frame option located in the Magnification group is set by default. Your image analysis program then calculates the most ap- propriate magnification based on the calibration data for the size of the im- age object.4) Change the magnification option and select the Use fixed magnification option.
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The edit field suggests a magnification for each image with which the im- age can be completely displayed in the image object.5) Enter various constant magnifications into the field and confirm by clicking Ap- ply.
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The size of the image object is what determines the maximum print size of the image. The lower-left segment of the image is all that will be shown be- cause the image is larger than the image object.•
To move an image around within the frame click the Move image button in the Report Objects button bar.6) Select the X check box located in the Scale group to include a scale bar under- neath the image being printed. Select one of three possible scale bar types from the list. The length of the scale bar is calculated from the pixel calibration data of an image and automatically adapted for printing.
Adding zoomed image segments (Detail Zoom) 1) Insert an empty image object.
2) Drag a large image either from the database or from the image manager onto the image object.
3) Select the image object and click the Detail Zoom button located in the Report Objects button bar.
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The pointer will appear within the report window. You are now only able to move the mouse pointer within the image object.4) Now define a rectangular segment within the image.
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Keeping the left mouse button depressed move the mouse to form a rect- angle within the image. Release the mouse button once the rectangle is the size desired."
Your image analysis program will select the image segment selected and will automatically add another image object showing the image detail se- lected."
Auxiliary lines provide a visual guide from the corners of the detail image to the corners of the image segment making it easy to see the visual cor- respondence between the image segment and the detail image.5) Changing the size and position of the detail image.
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