Pictures

A Picture canvas holds one image. Choose New ▸ Picture, pick an image file, and DunneNote confirms with "Picture added."

The image is stored inside the notebook and never changes. Cropping, rotation and markup are kept alongside it, so you can always undo them and get the original back. The same image used on several pages is stored only once.

Sizing and framing#

With a picture selected, the toolbar offers:

• Fit, Fill or Stretch: how the image fills its canvas.
• Resize or Crop: whether dragging an edge resizes the canvas or crops the image. When you crop, the part of the image you keep does not move, and an edge stops at the image boundary.
• Wrap or Leave blank: whether text in a Rich Text canvas underneath flows around the picture or leaves the space empty.

Rotation#

• Rotate left and Rotate right (or the [ and ] keys) turn the picture by one step.
• Drag the rotate handle to turn it freely. Hold Shift while you drag to snap to 15° steps.
• Rotation snap sets the step: 1°, 5°, 15°, 45° or Off. With snap off, the step is one whole degree by default. Holding Shift with the buttons always steps by 15°.
• Type an exact angle in the angle box and press Enter. Typing does not move the picture until you press Enter, click away or press a rotate button. Escape abandons what you typed. Values outside 0–360 wrap around, so 400 becomes 40.
• Reset rotation to 0 degrees puts it back to 0.

Fractional steps#

The number of decimal places you type sets the step for that picture. Type 45.0 and the buttons step by 0.1°. Type 45.00 and they step by 0.01°, which is the finest available. Type 45 to go back to whole degrees. The picture remembers this step even after you deselect it.

Markup#

Markup lets you draw on top of the picture. The strokes stay anchored to the image and are saved with the notebook.

Captions#

A caption is not part of a picture. It is a separate Rich Text canvas, normally transparent and borderless, grouped with the picture.

Select a picture and choose Add caption. DunneNote creates the text canvas, groups it with the picture and pins it in place. From then on it is an ordinary Rich Text canvas, so you can use any font, size, colour, link or list in it.

• Placement puts the caption Along Bottom, Along Top, or in a corner (Top-Left, Top-Right, Bottom-Left, Bottom-Right). Choose User-Placeable to drag it anywhere.
• A picture can have more than one caption, each with its own formatting and position. For example, you could caption a picture in two languages.
• A page arranged this way can be saved as a template.

Alt text#

Alt text describes a picture for someone who can't see it. A screen reader reads it out, and it appears if the image fails to load. A caption is read by everyone, and alt text is read instead of the picture, so a captioned picture still benefits from alt text. Alt text is included in search, and you can target it with alt:.

This version has no toolbar control for editing alt text. See Known limitations.

Hotspots#

A hotspot makes a rectangle on a picture clickable. Use Hotspot mode and Add hotspot, draw the rectangle, and enter the link address. Hotspots on one picture cannot overlap. Following a hotspot link goes through the same link safety checks as any other link.

Linking to a picture#

When you link to a picture from text, the link's label comes from the picture's caption. If it has no caption, the alt text is used. If it has neither, the link reads Caption not available. That is a prompt to add a caption, not a name.

Photo metadata#

When you add a photo, DunneNote reads the metadata embedded in it, such as when it was taken. You can see it in the Item inspector under Metadata.

Related#

• Tutorial: pictures with captions
• Arranging canvases