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Inserting Images

Every image is contained by a shape. When you insert, or copy and paste, or drag and drop an image (or PDF) into a document you can either add it to an existing shape, or otherwise a rectangle shape (with no line stroke or color fill) will be created to hold it. Images added outside existing shapes are scaled to fit comfortably within the currently set page size. PDFs added outside existing shapes are scaled at full size. Images and PDFs can be sized and fitted within their containing shape.

To add an image to an existing shape (or shapes) select the shape(s) before inserting or pasting the image. An image file in Finder can be dragged and dropped on a shape without any preselection - just drop it when the shape becomes highlighted.

Any shape can be used to contain an image, including shapes from the Shape Library and those drawn with the drawing tools. Each shape can hold a maximum of one image at a time.

To insert an image (including a single page PDF) inside one or more existing shapes:

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Select the shape(s) that are to receive the image. One or more of these shapes may already contain an image - any existing images will be replaced by the new image.

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To insert the image:

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Either, choose Insert > Image...

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Or, click the Image checkbox in the Image Inspector until it displays a tick.

NOTE: If the Image checkbox shows a dash Checkbox dash icon, this indicates that the current selection contains at least one shape with an existing image and at least one shape with no image. To continue editing all of the selected shapes together, click the Image checkbox to change the dash to a tick.

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Browse for and select the image file.

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Alternatively, insert an image using copy and paste, or drag and drop.

IMPORTANT: When copying or dragging a raster image (with PNG, JPEG, or GIF file format) from some applications (including web browsers) the image may only be made available on the system Clipboard to paste or drop in TIFF format. TIFF uses lossless compression (or no compression), which can greatly increase the file storage size compared to the original image format. To prevent document file size bloat you should avoid pasting or dropping TIFF converted images into a document directly from these applications. Instead, save or export an image in its native file format to your Mac's file system, before then inserting it into your document as a separate step. No TIFF conversion takes place when using copy and paste, or drag and drop, to add image files from Finder (which includes files on your Desktop), or to transfer images within or between iStudio Publisher documents.

NOTE: After adding an image to a document you can check its file format using the Image Inspector.

To insert an image (including a single page PDF) outside any existing shape:

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Choose Insert > Image...

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Browse for and select the image file.

The image is placed inside a rectangle shape, which is created with no line stroke or color fill.

IMPORTANT: The comments in the previous task box about using copy and paste or drag and drop to bring images into iStudio Publisher documents also apply here - it's fine to do this from Finder, but avoid doing it from other apps to prevent image conversion to TIFF format, and the associated file size bloat.

To insert a multi-page PDF file:

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Start by opening the PDF file in Preview, so that page thumbnails are showing in Preview's sidebar. If thumbnails aren't showing already, choose menu option View > Thumbnails (or in earlier versions of Preview choose View > Sidebar, and then choose Thumbnails from the pull-down list at the bottom of the sidebar).

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In the Thumbnails Sidebar, navigate to a page you want to copy, and then simply click and drag it into your iStudio Publisher document.

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Repeat for other pages.

NOTE: If you try to insert a multi-page PDF file into an iStudio Publisher document by choosing menu option Insert > PDF, only the first page of the PDF gets inserted.

Use the Image Inspector and/or Image Tool to adjust image settings, including size, stretch and positioning.

Related Topics

Image File Types and Extensions

Image Inspector

Image Tool

About Image DPI

Cut, Copy and Paste

Drag and Drop