Images

Photographs placed at the size and the position you choose, from the image files a camera or a scanner already produces.

A photograph is placed on the page inside a rectangle you decide. What happens when the picture and the rectangle are not the same shape is a choice rather than an accident: fill the rectangle and crop what sticks out, fit the whole picture inside and leave margins, stretch it, or keep it at its true size.

The usual formats are read as they come. What each file declares about itself — how large it is, how many dots to the inch it was made at, whether part of it is meant to be see-through — is read from the file rather than assumed, so a picture arrives on the page as its own maker described it.

What it saves you

A picture never comes out squashed: You say once how a picture that does not match its rectangle must behave, and every picture after it obeys — including the one somebody uploads next year in the wrong shape.
It prints at the size it really is: A photograph placed at its true size comes out of the printer at that size, which is what matters when the page is a plan, a label or anything somebody will measure.
No conversion step beforehand: The files a camera, a scanner or a designer hands over are taken as they are, so nothing has to be prepared by hand before a document can be produced.

See it done

Images on a page

A photograph that goes in exactly as it came out of the camera, and one with transparent parts that keeps them, each on a page cut to its own size.

A gallery of picture formats

The four picture formats read — JPEG, PNG, BMP and TIFF — shown across every picture shipped with the library, each captioned with what its own file declares.

Every picture a scanner put in one file

A file of three sheets and a file holding one photograph, each picture on a page cut to its own size; the photograph goes in exactly as the camera wrote it, since reading software reads a photograph itself.

A picture fitted into a rectangle

One picture fitted into a rectangle of one size eight ways: three ways of sizing it, the same one stood in the top left corner with a 12-point inset, a quarter turn left, a quarter turn right, a turn of 20 degrees, and a left-to-right mirror — every panel drawing the picture at the place and the size the library worked out.