Logos and images can be added to your farmerswife Server, to add to your Reports, Invoices, and Quotes in the Print Designer. However, as you cannot currently adjust the size of the images within farmerswife, the size of the image(s) needs to be adjusted before they are added to the server.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Preparing your Images
- Adding your Images to your Server
- Adding your Images and Logos to your Templates
Preparing your Images
COMPANY LOGO
The "Company Logo" is an element that is always listed on the Print Designer. If you would like your logo/image to be displayed when ticking this option, then your logo/image should be in the following format:
Approx Scale: 140-pixels x 140-pixels
File Type: GIF
Alpha Channel: works better without an Alpha Channel
ADDITIONAL & BACKGROUND IMAGES
Other logos or images can be added to your database, to be switched on in the Print Designer Header section; or be used as background images. These logos or images again cannot have their size altered within farmerswife, and so should be the correct size before being imported.
For reference, the default size for an A4 page in the Print Designer is 1680-pixels x 2375-pixels. To ensure your logos or images appear at the correct size, you should scale them against the default A4 size.
For additional images, the suggested format would be:
Approx Scale: relative to an A4 page of 1680-pixels x 2375-pixels
File Type: GIF / PNG
Alpha Channel: works better without an Alpha Channel
FULL-PAGE BACKGROUND IMAGES
You can also add images that can be used as full-page background images. As with the Additional Images, these will need to be the correct size before being added to the server. For these images, the suggested format would be:
Approx Scale: 1680-pixels x 2375-pixels (Portrait) / 2375-pixels x 1680-pixels (Landscape)
File Type: GIF / PNG
Alpha Channel: works better without an Alpha Channel
N.B. As a reference there are two PNG files attached to this article, at the size of the A4 page in the Print Designer, called:
- PrintDesignerLandscape-2375x1680pixels
- PrintDesignerPortrait-1680x2375pixels
Adding your Images to your Server
COMPANY LOGO
On the Server application, enter SETUP.
N.B. Any users connected, will be disconnected when entering the Server Setup. It is advisable to ask users to log out prior to entering Setup.
On the GENERAL tab, click on the COMPANY LOGO picture to add your own. From here, you will be prompted to choose your logo (see suggested format above).
On selecting the logo, and then clicking OK, the server will restart and you will now be able to use your new logo wherever you see COMPANY LOGO within the Print Designer.
ADDITIONAL AND BACKGROUND IMAGES
These images will need to be added to the label_images folder, within the folder structure of the Server application.
On Mac
Locate the farmerswife server application (usually in the Applications folder), right-click, and select Open Package Contents. From here, navigate to the system folder and here you will find the label_images folder.
On Windows
Locate the folder where your server application is installed. This would usually be at one of the following two locations, but you may have it installed somewhere specifically:
- C:\Program Files\Farmers Wife Server
- C:\Program Files (86)\Farmers Wife Server
From here, navigate to the system folder and here you will find the folder label_images.
On both Mac & Windows, copy your Additional and/or Background images into the label_images folder (see suggested format above).
N.B. The file names of the images added to the label_images folder, will be the name of the image in the Print Designer
Once added, you will need to quit and restart the Server application before you can use the new images in the Print Designer. If you choose to not restart the server, the images will be useable in the Print Designer from the next scheduled Server restart.
On restarting the farmerswife Server, the Log Window will show the images/ logos that have been imported.
Adding your Images and Logos to your Templates
COMPANY LOGO & ADDITIONAL IMAGES
After adding your new Images/ logos and restarting the server, log into farmerswife and go to any Print Designer (Project Reports, Invoice Creator, etc) where you want to show the image/ logo. The newly added images will now be seen in the Header and/or Projects section, and the name of them will be the same as the file name given to the files added to the label_images folder.
Simply select the image/logo you want to use in the template (mark the checkbox next to it) and drag and drop the image by clicking on the yellow box on the image in the Preview area.
The COMPANY LOGO will always be available by default and therefore cannot be deleted nor renamed.
BACKGROUND IMAGES
To add a new background image, go into the SETUP of the template. Under PAGE BACKGROUNDS, click on the Plus symbol. From the drop-down, select the required image; then choose the mode (All Pages, All Pages Except the First, Only the First, Only the Last); and set up the position.
The position given is where the top left corner of the image sits, in relation to the top left corner of the page, with 0,0 being the top left corner of the page.
For a Full-Page Background Image, you will want to set the position to 0,0.
In the diagram above, the page is set to 1680-pixels x 2375-pixels, and the coordinates given in the image (1410 x 200) will place the image as shown in the print-out below.
All background images will be locked to the template and cannot be dragged around on the template preview like other images; they can only be altered in the SETUP by changing the numbers in the Position prompt window.
ALTERING THE POSITION OF A BACKGROUND IMAGE
To change the position of a background image, again go to the SETUP of the template. Under the PAGE BACKGROUND section, you will now have the name of the image next to the coordinates of where the image sits on the page.
To alter, click on the line of the image you would like to change. This will bring up the same prompt boxes as selecting an image for the first time. Step through these until you reach the Position prompt. At this point, enter your new coordinates, before selecting OK.
REMOVING A BACKGROUND IMAGE
Should you wish to remove the background image you have on the template, again go to the SETUP of the template. Under the PAGE BACKGROUND box, click the line of the image you would like to remove. On the SELECT IMAGE prompt, select CANCEL. Now you will be presented with a new prompt Clear ?. At this point, select CONFIRM, and the background image will be removed.
MULTIPLE BACKGROUND IMAGES
When adding multiple background images, the highest listed image will be the lowest layer. Therefore if you have a full-page image and a logo to add; you should add the full-page image, before adding the logo that needs to sit over the background image.
