14.2.  ImageMap

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Revision $Revision: 2442 $ 2008-03-18 ude

In Web sensitive images are frequently used to get some effects when defined areas are enabled by the pointer. Obviously the most used effect is a dynamic link to another web page when one of the sensitive areas is clicked on. This “filter” allows you to design easily sensitive areas within an image. Web site design softwares have this as a standard function. In GIMP you can do this in a similar way.

The menu bar is similar to the image window menu bar, only a few menus or menu entries are different:

File
Save; Save As

Contrary to other filters, this plug-in doesn't make an image but a text file. So you must save your work in a text format.

[Tip] Tip

With View->Source you can preview this text file content.

Open; Open recent

In the plug-in you can open the saved text file. The areas defined in your file will be loaded and overdisplayed; if the displayed image is not the original one or not with the same size, GIMP will ask you for adapting the scale.

Edit
View

This menu offers you special functions:

Area list

Here you can hide or show the selection area.

Source

Here you see the raw data as you would save it to or read it from a file.

Color; Grayscale

You can select the image mode here and work with a Grayscale display.

Mapping

You will seldom use this menu, since you can more easily access selection tools by clicking on icons on the left of the working area.

Tools

With the menu Tools you can create guides and even regularly spaced rectangular areas.