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Reliable Web Images (GIF and JPG)

Different web browsers display different types of image formats, but the ONLY image formats which are reliably displayed in all browsers are .GIF and .JPG.

The rule for using these image formats is:

Use .jpg for PHOTOGRAPHIC images and use .gif for TEXT and
LINE ART or images with FEW solid colors.

Unreliable Web Images (PNG, TIF, BMP, etc.)

There are formats which Cool Page does not support yet, because they are not reliably supported by enough browsers. However, if you insist on using these formats, you can link to them using Window = "new" to have them appear in popup window, or using HTML Object to embed them in page.

Some web browsers will display other formats such as .PNG, .TIF, .BMP, etc. However, in all cases the support for these formats is not consistent across all browsers. For example as the following web page here explains, although some .PNGs will display in Internet Explorer, even the latest version 6 of IE, does not reliably display all important variations of .PNG. Click this link to petition Microsoft to add reliable .PNG support to IE, or visit the canonical, standard page for .PNG here. Conversely, .TIF and .BMP are currently only supported in Internet Explorer, or with a plugin in other browsers.

Images and Cool Page

Cool Page supports GIF and JPG image formats.

Cool Page implements the Gif89a specification very strictly because some browsers also require exactness. Some GIF graphics programs try to cheat based on what they think will work in most browsers, but we do not like to do things in a risky way, therefore Cool Page will not allow non-standard GIF images to be used on the pages.

If you try to import a GIF or JPG onto your page and you get a prompt from Cool Page that says that "this file type is not supported" then realize that the file you are trying to import is a non-standard image.

However, you can still use the file, but you will have to repair it first.

Support for .PNG has not been added yet to Cool Page because Internet Explorer versions have too many "bugs" related to it's ability to display .PNG images. See this Technical Paper.

Put an Image on Your Page

Put an image on your page by:

• Drag+Drop an image from the Objects window or other directory on your computer.

• Import an image to page using the Import button or the Insert Menu.

Cool Page Image Alerts

Cool Page is smart enough to detect and alert you when you attempt to do certain things with images on your page:

Filetype Not Supported

note: JPG images and GIF images have different qualities.

Cool Page can automatically optimize* a JPG image when resizing it by constraining it's proportions in the Image Object Properties window.

You can resize a GIF image in Cool Page by dragging it's edges with your mouse. However, Cool Page does not automatically optimize* resized GIF images at this time. A future version of Cool Page may have this feature. (a non-optimized GIF will look blurred or distorted)

Therefore, it is recommended that you resize your GIF image using a graphics editor.

* Cool Page can "optimize" a JPG image by constraining the proportions of the image so as not to distort it. For instance, an image that has a width of 100 and a height of 50 means that the width is twice as large as the height. The proportions are 2-1. It is possible to retain the image proportions when resizing the image smaller or larger.