You can drag and drop one or more files from Windows directly into any of the following areas of the PlanetPress Design Program window: the Structure area, the Data Pane, the Page area, or the Object Inspector (when the Object Inspector is displaying an image resource).
You can drag and drop any of the following file types. PlanetPress Design determines the type of file from the file name extension, and accepts specific file formats for each file type.
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File type: |
PlanetPress Design accepts files with file name extension: |
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PlanetPress Design document (versions 3 and up) |
PP3, PP4, PP5, PP6 and PP7 |
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Image |
BMP, EPS, JPEG or JPG, PDF, PNG, TIF or TIFF |
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Attachment |
PRN, PS |
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Sample data file |
CSV, DAT, DB, DBF, MDB, PDF, TXT, XML |
If you drag and drop a PlanetPress Design6 document, PlanetPress Design opens that document. If you drag and drop a PlanetPress Design document from an earlier version, PlanetPress Design imports that document.
For all other file types, the type of file (image, attachment, or sample data file) and the area of the program window in which you drop it determine what PlanetPress Design does with the file. Whether you drag and drop a single file or multiple files can also have an impact on how PlanetPress Design treats the file or files. The procedure here describes the behavior of each area of the PlanetPress Design Program window when you drag and drop image, attachment, or sample data files into it.
To drag and drop files into PlanetPress Design:
Select the file that you want to drag and drop into PlanetPress Design, and then drag it over the appropriate area of the program window.
When pointer is over an area where a drop is permitted, release the mouse button.
dragging Image Files
Into the Structure area:PlanetPress Design creates an image resource for each image file.
Into the Page area: If you dropped multiple image files, PlanetPress Design creates an image resource for each image file. If you dropped a single image file, PlanetPress Design also creates a picture object containing that image on the current page. If you dropped a single multi-page PDF, PlanetPress Design creates a single image resource for the PDF, a new document page for each page of the PDF, and, on each new document page, a picture object that contains a page of the PDF.
Into the Data pane:PlanetPress Design creates an image resource for each image file.
Into the Object inspector: If you dropped multiple image files, PlanetPress Design creates an image resource for each image file. If you dropped a single image file, PlanetPress Design replaces the image resource currently displaying in the Object Inspector with the one you dragged and dropped.
dragging attachments
Into the Structure or Page area or into the Data pane: PlanetPress Design creates an attachment resource for each attachment file.
dragging sample Data files
Into the Structure or Page area:PlanetPress Design replaces the sample data file currently associated with the document with the one you dropped in the Structure or Page area, and it updates the Data Pane to reflect the contents of the new sample data file. Note that if you drop several sample data files in the Structure or Page area, PlanetPress Design adds each in the order in which it receives them, each subsequent file replacing the previous one as the sample data file. The last one it adds is the one that becomes the sample data file associated with the document. There is no way to control the order in which PlanetPress Design receives multiple sample data files. If the sample data file you drag and drop does not have a filename extension PlanetPress Design recognizes, PlanetPress Design opens the Data Selector and displays the contents of the file using a line printer emulation. You can then select a different emulation if necessary.
Into the Data pane: PlanetPress Design replaces the sample data file currently associated with the document with the one you dropped in the Data Pane, and it updates the Data Pane to reflect the contents of the new sample data file. Note that if you drop several sample data files in the Data Pane, PlanetPress Design adds each in the order in which it receives them, each subsequent file replacing the previous one as the sample data file. The last one it adds is the one that becomes the sample data file associated with the document. There is no way to control the order in which PlanetPress Design receives multiple sample data files. If the sample data file you drag and drop does not have a filename extension PlanetPress Design recognizes, PlanetPress Design opens the Data Selector and displays the contents of the file using a line printer emulation. You can then select a different emulation if necessary.