The imported bitmap element will
appear in the drawing area. There are few editable properties for bitmaps: their
Format Dialog contains only the
Postion and Size and
Condition
tabs. For more information about these options, please see Section
3.2.1.
When using bitmaps it is important to remember that they
take much longer to display than normal vector-based elements. Therefore, we
advise you to consider carefully their use in symbols that are expected to be
used extensively in diagrams. The main factor affecting performance is the
number of pixels occupied on the screen by the resulting bitmap. Also, even
though the Symbol Editor provides the means to scale the bitmaps, it is
recommended that you try to import the pictures at the size they are projected
to appear within the symbol. For a given on-screen size, the best performance is
obtained when there is no overall scaling of the bitmap, taking into account the
scaling of the symbol element, the scaling of the non-property representation in
the diagram, and the current zoom factor of the Diagram Editor. While working
with bitmaps in the Symbol Editor, setting the zoom factor to 100% will improve
performance.