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Chief Architect X10 Reference Manual

2 Center/Orientation - Specify the • Check Reset Cropping to fill the extents
position of the selected Picture’s center of the selected Picture box with the image
point and its angle. See “3D Drafting” on associated with it. If the box has been
page 32. resized, the image may appear distorted.
• Specify the X and Y Positions of the pic- See “Editing Pictures, Metafiles, and
ture box’s center point relative to the PDF Boxes” on page 1157.
absolute origin. A variety of Display Options are
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• Specify the Angle of the picture box rela- available.
tive to a horizontal line pointing towards • Check Black and White Dither to dither
the right hand side of the screen. the selected picture file. Dithering creates

3 Specify the Size of the picture in plan a two tone effect that may produce better
results when printed.
inches (mm).
• Specify the Width of the picture box. • Check Grayscale to replace the color in
The original width in pixels displays to the selected picture with shades of gray.
the right. • Check Reflect to reverse the image.
• Specify the Height of the picture box. • Enter a degree of Brightness from 1 -
The original height in pixels displays to 100%.
the right. • Enter a degree of Contrast from 1 -
• Uncheck Retain Aspect Ratio of X if 100%.
you would like to modify the Height or
Width without affecting the other value. Line Style Panel
If you do this, the picture may appear dis-
torted. The settings on this panel are similar to those
on the LINE STYLE panel in numerous other
This check box does not affect editing dialogs, with one exception: check Show
performed outside of this dialog and is an Outline to turn on the display of the picture’s
action rather than a state: the next time border polyline. For more information, see
you open this dialog, it will be checked. “Line Style Panel” on page 301.
• Reset Original Aspect Ratio - If the Fill Style Panel
aspect ratio is changed, you can click this
button to return the picture to its original For information about using the FILL STYLE
aspect ratio. panel, see “Fill Style Panel” on page 315.

Metafiles

A metafile (.emf, .wmf) is a special picture of quality. High resolution pictures of line-
file format made up of vectors (lines) that based views can be exported as a metafile.
allow the image to be rescaled without loss

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