Editing Images

You can edit images in various ways.

How to Use a Style to Edit Image Properties

  1. From the Content Explorer, open the stylesheet that you want to modify.
  2. In the local toolbar, make sure the first button displays Advanced View button. If the button displays Simplified View button instead, then click it.
  3. In the upper-left corner of the editor, click in the drop-down field and select .
  4. From the area below, select the img style. If you created classes of the style, you can expand img and select the class instead.
  5. Use the properties section on the right side of the editor to apply settings for the style.

  6. Click Save the active file. to save your work.
  7. If you made the style changes to an image style class, apply that class to the image where it is inserted.

How to Open Images in MadCap Capture for Editing

  1. Do one of the following:
    • Open a topic where the image is inserted. Right-click on the image.

      OR

    • In the Content Explorer, locate and right-click the image file that you want to edit (e.g., Resources > Images > NameOfFile.png).
  2. From the context menu select Edit With MadCap Capture. The image opens in MadCap Capture.
  3. Edit the image in Capture. For details, see Capture's online Help.
  4. Save your work in Capture.

What’s Noteworthy?

Note You can also make any image in your online Help interactive by linking it to another topic, bookmark within a topic, or an external file such as a website. See Inserting Image Hyperlinks.

Note If you are using the "generate web-safe images" option in WebHelp targets, images that link to external locations, such as websites, are not affected by that option. See Generating Web-Safe Images.