ImaT - Image Titler - Help
ImaT - Image Titler is an app. for adding titles to images. This is the Help document for ImaT - Image Titler.
Menus
File
The File Menu contains four items,
Open,
Save,
Titles &
Exit.
Open
Opens an image, ready to have titles added.
Save
Saves the image with titles.
Titles
The Titles menu contains two items:
Export &
Import.
Export
Saves the current titles to disk, for later use.
Import
Opens titles from disk, for use on the current image.
Exit
Exit's the ImaT - Image Titler software.
Information
The Information menu has two items,
About &
Help.
About
Pops a dialog giving the application title, vendor and version.
Help
You're looking at it! Opens this page in the default browser.
Controls
The general controls for configuring ImaT - Image Titler include ...
Titles List and controls
The Titles list and its associated controls preovide a List of Titles as well as buttons to add or delete titles to/from the list.
Title List
The Title List shows the titles currently added to the image. Select any title in the list to have it opened in the Image Title Edit component. The Image View will scroll it to a visible region, if it is currently 'off-screen'.
Add
The Add title button adds a new, default title to the list, selects it and opens it in the
Image Title Edit component.
Delete
The Delete title button deletes the currently selected titles from the Title List.
Image View
The Image View component shows as much of the current image as will fit, unscaled, within the viewable area assigned to it (maximize the window to minimize scrolling!).
Image Title Editor
Allows editing and fine-tuning of the title text, location, colors and other details. See the Image Title editor component for further details.
Status Message
The status message at the bottom of the ImaT - Image Titler interface provides feedback and help.
.imt Format
The .imt (Image Titles) format is intended to be simple and
transparent. Basically it consists of a ZIP archive that contains an array of titles in the
image-titles.xml.
The archive uses standard compression.
The image-titles.xml is XML whos
format is determined by the Java based XMLEncoder semantics.
The image-titles.xml consists of the
XML representations of
Java beans. Thes objects are represented by a single array of
...Titles.
Related Tools
Access to some other tools might be very handy while making animated screen captures.
Image Sequence - Titler (ISe-T)
The Image Sequence Titler provides functionality to add titles and captions to groups of images captured in ImaT - Image Titler.
Output Forms
Ultimately you will want to convert the .ist files to a more common type
of animation. We provide means to convert the sequences to
GIF &
MOV.
GIFanim
GIFanim will turn a sequence of images into an animated GIF. GIF's are especially good for web pages and documentation.
MovieMaker
MovieMaker will turn image sequences into JPEG based MOV files.
