4.5 Graphics

Pointless supports the Portable Network Graphics image format (png). An image MyHorse.png is loaded using =image("MyHorse.png"). The image will be placed according to the usual paragraph breaking. If you wish to place the image at a fixed location you may use =absolute_image as shown below. The upper left corner of the image will be placed at the location given as argument to the command. It should be mentioned that this leaves the paragraph breaking responsibility to the composer of the presentation. It is a trial-and-error procedure to ensure that it won't be placed where other components are to be placed but maybe this "feature" was the reason for choosing to use the command in the first place.

absolute_image("MyHorse.png", 200.0, 75.0, 0.0)

A horizontal line (of width e.g. 3 pixels) is introduced by =hrule(3px). The color of the ruler is the current color, thus use

{=setcolor("lcyan")=hrule(5px)}

to contruct a 5 pixels thick light-cyan ruler.

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