| Preference | Set this to None if you do not wish to view pictures. Otherwise choose 1st, unless you have some particular reason to want to use a less-preferred picture. |
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| Include OLE Objects | Include OLE Objects as pictures? You will usually want to leave this unchecked. |
| Show silhouette if no picture (m/f
only) |
If this option is ticked, and
Preferences is not set to None, a silhouette will be displayed for
each person that has no picture (subject to the '.... for Box
Types' setting), as long as they have a recorded sex. The
sex determines which silhouette picture is displayed. |
| Silhouette | Click on this button to open a dialog box, to view the current
silhouette images. You can change them if you wish. |
| … for these Box Types | Select the Box Types that you want to display pictures in. If in doubt, check Ancestors, Descendants and Spouses only. |
| Picture Position | If you want the picture to appear to the left or right of the text, set this accordingly. If you want the picture to appear within the text, select Within the text. The picture will appear at the ‘picture marker’ in the current text scheme. The picture marker is a special code that is used in text schemes, to indicate where pictures should go, if they are being displayed within the text. If your text scheme has no picture marker, the picture will be displayed at the end of the text. If that is not what you want, you should modify the text scheme to set the picture marker appropriately (see Diagram Options Dialog: Text Tab). |
| Maximum Picture Height | Maximum allowed height for pictures within boxes. |
| Shrink Large Pictures | If you tick To maximum picture height, boxes will be made taller if necessary, to house large pictures. If you tick To height of box (if smaller) pictures will adjust to the height of the box, rather than vice versa. |
| Enlarge small pictures to same height | Tick this if you wish pictures that are smaller than the height of the box, or the maximum picture height, to be enlarged. |
| Wrap text round picture | Display text both alongside and below pictures, when pictures are displayed at the side. |
| Border round picture | Puts a black frame round each picture. |
| Picture Margins |
Gaps to leave around pictures. Tick if that is what you want (this is a common requirement, as it often looks better to have no margins, when pictures are displayed at the side). |
| Enlarge gaps to | This setting is only applicable if you display pictures at the side of each box, with no margins around them. Frequently in these cases, the box height will be determined by the picture height, and will exactly match it. It can happen however, that the box height is larger than the picture height. In that case, the picture will be displayed in the top left or top right corner of the box, and this normally looks OK if the box is significantly bigger than the picture. However, if the height is only fractionally larger than the picture, you can sometimes get a tiny gap appearing below the picture, which looks worse than either a larger gap, or no gap at all. To ensure that if you get a gap appearing at all, it will be enlarged to a minimum height, set the required value in this field. If you set the value to zero, no enlargement will occur. |
| Restore Defaults | Restores all options on this tab back to their installation defaults. |