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ADDING YOUR FILES TO A COLLECTION
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IMAGEAXS PRO MACINTOSH USER’S GUIDE
WHAT KINDS OF FILES CAN I ADD TO A COLLECTION?
Although ImageAXS Pro is primarily designed for managing
multimedia files (images, movies and animations, sounds, and 3D
files), you can add virtually any type of file to an ImageAXS Pro
collection to take advantage of the program’s capabilities for
organizing and describing files.
N
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Though ImageAXS Pro has been tested with an extensive variety of file
types, some users may have untested file types that cannot be acquired
successfully.
ACQUIRING
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NDIVIDUAL FILES
The simplest way to make a data record for a file on your computer is
to acquire it individually into an ImageAXS Pro collection.
To add an individual file to a collection:
STEP 1 In the Source File menu, highlight Acquire, then select File from
the submenu that appears.
A standard file dialog box appears.
STEP 2 Locate and highlight the file you want to acquire.
If the Show Preview checkbox is selected, a thumbnail
version of any image file you highlight will appear in the
dialog box.
STEP 3 Click Open.
A data record for the file is added at the end of the
collection (as a thumbnail image in the Thumbnails View,
and a row of data in the Text List View.
You can also acquire individual files in the Finder by selecting the
Finder icon for each file (including icons shown as found items in a
Find File or Sherlock window), then doing any of the following:
• Drag the Finder icon(s) into an open ImageAXS Pro collection
window.
• Drag the Finder icon(s) onto the ImageAXS Pro application icon.
(Doing this launches ImageAXS Pro and makes a data record for
each file in the most recently opened collection.)
• Press and hold the
CTRL key as you click any selected Finder icon,
then select Acquire in ImageAXS from the contextual menu that
appears.