Graphic Details Dialog Box
The Graphic Details dialog box displays when you apply the Graphic style to an element, via the > menu option. It provides the options for you to define the attributes in the graphic element that set the graphic's display in your document. You can also access this dialog box by selecting the > menu choice to modify the settings for an element that has been assigned the Graphic style.
When a stylesheet is created, an element mapped as a graphic element in the .dcf file is mapped to the Graphic style in Arbortext Styler, and its attribute roles are set based on .dcf settings. Any changes you make to the graphic settings in Arbortext Styler take precedence over the initial settings in the .dcf file.
The Graphic Details dialog box contains the following options:
• Make primary graphic element - Indicates that the selected element is always used as the default graphic element, if you apply the Graphic style to more than one element. Arbortext Editor inserts the primary graphic element when users select the > menu option (note that the set promptgraphictags preference must be set to off).
• Attributes - Lists the permitted attributes of the selected element, and the role that is currently set for each element. The role defines the type of control that the attribute has on the display of the graphic, based on the value set for the attribute.
• Attribute role - Lists the roles you can apply to a graphic attribute. Each attribute can have only one role, and each role can apply to only one attribute. Once you assign a role to an attribute, it is unavailable from the Attribute role list.
◦ Entity name - Identifies the attribute that holds the graphic entity name.
◦ File name - Identifies the attribute that holds the graphic path and file name.
◦ Magnification - Identifies the attribute that supplies the value for the percent magnification at which the graphic is displayed.
◦ Scale to fit - Identifies the attribute whose value turns on the scale-to-fit feature for the graphic.
◦ Scale to fit height - Identifies the attribute that supplies the value for the height dimension when scaling the graphic.
◦ Scale to fit width - Identifies the attribute that supplies the value for the width dimension when scaling the graphic.
◦ Vertical adjust amount - Identifies the attribute that supplies the value for the vertical offset at which the graphic is displayed.
◦ Vertical adjust percent - Identifies the attribute that supplies the percentage of the height of the graphic to offset vertically when displayed.
◦ Horizontal adjust amount - Identifies the attribute that supplies the value for the horizontal offset at which the graphic is displayed.
◦ Horizontal adjust percent- Identifies the attribute that supplies the percentage of the width of the graphic to offset horizontally when displayed.
◦ View - Identifies the attribute that supplies the view to display for an intelligent graphic.
An attribute with the
View role can also be used to define the number of a page from a PDF that is to be inserted as a graphic. Refer to
Bitmap and Vector Graphics for information.
◦ Other - Indicates that no role has been assigned to the selected attribute. Select this option to remove an attribute's role. Once you change an attribute's role to Other, its previous role becomes available from the Attribute role list.