clipboard image menu

1. You select an image by clicking on one of the image fields at the top of the menu. Your selection will be highlighted, and the size of the image will be reported in the Columns and Rows menu fields.
2. If you image is a black & white image, and you want it displayed in pseudocolor, specify a palette in the Palette menu field and set the Use pseudocolor? toggle to Yes. If you don't want pseudocolor, set the toggle to No.
3. Set the size of the image on the clipboard by entering the desired width in the Display width menu field. This size the physical size of the image on the screen.
4. Set the Use mouse? toggle to Yes. This lets you use the mouse to position the image in the clipboard.
5. If you want the system to add a border to the image, set the Add border? toggle to Yes, and enter the border color and border width. The width of the border is measured in clipboard pixels.
6. If you are pasting bitmap image, you can control the color of the background and foreground pixels with the Bitmap background and Bitmap foreground menu fields. The Paste background? toggle controls whether the bitmap's background pixels will overwrite the clipboard when you paste it in. If you set it to No, you can overlay the bitmap's foreground pixels on another image. If you set it to Yes, the bitmap's background pixels also overlay the contents of the clipboard. If you are pasting a vector image, set the vector color and width on the menu.
7. Finally, click on PASTE IMAGE to paste the image into the clipboard, and use the mouse to position the image on the clipboard. Click button 1 to paste the image, or button 2 or 3 to cancel the pasteup.

When you paste the image, the system loads the position of the lower-left corner into the menu. If you then set the Use mouse? toggle to No, you can paste other images into exactly the same position, bypassing the positioning step. This is useful if you are overlaying bitmap or vector images on other images.

You can transparently overlay one image on another by setting the Enable halftoning? toggle to Yes. When halftoning is enabled, the image is effectively passed through a screening process that doesn't let all of the image's pixels get through into the clipboard. The Halftone spacing field controls how many of the image's pixels get through. A spacing of 2 lets half through, 3 lets 1/3, etc.

If you have pasted a greyscale image into the clipboard, you can attach a color bar to it that you can label to indicate signal levels, altitudes or whatever. To do this, specify the color bar's minimum and maximum values, and the number of subdivisions you want when it does the labelling. Then click on ADD COLOR BAR. The system will prompt you to indicate the image you want to attach the color bar to. Click with button 1 within the image you want, clicking near the border where you would like the bar to be attached.