Placing images

[whoit]

When using the CoreAPI, is the only method for placing images (raster images, jpg, bmp, etc) PlaceImage/PlaceImageEx ?

I'm specifically interested in placing images in conjunction with ShowTextBlock and determining placement since
images cannot be included within ShowTextBlock.

Thanks,
Wayne

[Tracker Supp-Stefan]

Hello Wayne,

I've passed this along to a colleague in the dev team, and he said that he will post back his further comments and advise tomorrow.

Regards,
Stefan

[Sasha - Tracker Dev Team]

Hello Wayne,

Well the PlaceImageEx gives you a possibility to specify an image rectangle. Or what do you want to achieve precisely?

Cheers,
Alex

[whoit]

Hi Alex -

I'm essentially wanting to add image handling/placement into our existing stamping (which uses ShowTextBlock).
Since TextBlocks do not handle images (too bad since they handle other html/css!) I was interested
in any other available ways to add images that may coordinate with TextBlock positioning.

For example, I can't really put images inline with text, so I'm guessing that I simply have to calculate
positions and put an image between two TextBlocks?

Here's what I mean, done with html and rendered in a browser:

[Sasha - Tracker Dev Team]

Hello Wayne,

The ShowTextBlock methods do not use the HTML/CSS formatting - they use the XFA formatted input (and believe me - they differ).
This means you will have to calculate the positions of the image manually.

Cheers,
Alex

[whoit]

I thought that might be the case.

Thanks Alex...

[Sasha - Tracker Dev Team]