Picture

 

If you have a scanner, you can use the scanning program that came with your scanner to scan pictures and then save them as picture files (.jpg .pcx .png) on your computer.  If you have a digital camera, copy the pictures to your C drive.  You can put the pictures into any folder, or you may want to put them in the Picture folder which is below your BK data folder.

 

To attach a picture to a person, go to the Edit screen and then click the Picture tab then pick the Add Picture button.  Then select the picture file you want to attach.  If most of your pictures are in a certain folder, then be sure to set that folder under File, Options, Pictures.  BK can read many picture file formats such as .bmp .pcx .png and .jpg. 

 

The BK program will connect the picture to the person.  It makes a link to the picture file on your hard drive.  Do not delete the picture file which is on your C drive and do not move the picture file after it is attached, or else BK will not be able to show the picture.

 

To view a picture that is already attached to a person, click the column to the left of the picture line.  The picture will be displayed in the upper right corner.  Then you may click on the picture to view it on a screen by itself.  To print the picture, pick File, Print Picture.  The picture may also be printed on the Group sheets and the Ancestor chart (pick Options on the Ancestor chart) and on the Descendant Box chart and on the book reports like the Indented Book report.  To print a small sample of all your pictures, pick Other from the main menu, then Picture summary.

 

You can attach 100 pictures to each person.  You can also attach pictures to a husband and wife by setting the Individual/Family column to Family.  Currently the printed reports will print 1 picture for each person.  They will print the first picture or else the one marked "primary" in the Print Where column.  You may find that a "head shot" or passport type photograph will look best when printed on the reports.

 

There is a "size" column that can be set with the picture.  That is used on the book reports to increase or decrease the normal size.  When you print a book report, you can set the picture height to 1.2 inches or whatever size you want.  If you want a certain picture to be larger than the normal size, you can put a number in the size column and it will add to the normal size.  If you put 5 in the size column it will add 0.5 inches to the normal size.  If you type 8 it will add 0.8 inches and so on.  If you type -3 it will make the picture 0.3 inches smaller than normal.