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Image Tag

Below the header information, the RealPix file contains a list of all the images that will be used in the presentation. You can think of this section of the file as a sort of content library from which the presentation will draw.

Each image is referenced with an image tag, which has a name attribute that provides the image file location and assigns a unique handle number to the image.

An image tag looks like this:

<image handle="some number" name="some file name"/>

Note that "some number" is just a placeholder: you should use an actual number, i.e., 1, 2, 3 et cetera. Also, it is helpful to use your file names to indicate the sequence of the files in the presentation. For example, you could select names like image1.gif, image2.gif, and so forth. Or, you could combine descriptive filenames with numbers: bluejay1.jpg, cardinal2.jpg, woodpecker3.jpg.

The images should be stored in the same directory (folder) as the RealPix file that references them, or they should include the complete server address (as in the example below).

The <image/> tag ends with a forward slash.

 

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