There are two ways of selecting an image to be placed by addimage: Direct and Dynamic. Display the addimage plugin dialog (see To attach a plugin to a field) then choose:

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Select the Direct tab of the Configure dialog, then

•Browse to folder containing the image file and select the file. The image will be shown in the panel alongside; the width and height of the image will be detailed in the panel below.

See Image placement to specify the image's position on the page.
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Select the Dynamic tab of the Configure dialog. Set up a template for selecting a file using the value of the field that called addimage:

•Enter a prefix, typically the path of the data-file. This may be left blank if a prefix is not required.
•Enter a suffix, typically the file-extension. Default value .BMP.

AddImage constructs a new image file-name by concatenating the prefix, the text extracted from the data-field and the suffix. This allows a different image to be placed when the data changes. For example:

Prefix

Data field value

Suffix

c:\catalog\product

ant137

.jpg

places image from file c:\catalog\ant137.jpg.

See Image placement to specify the image's position on the page.

Note that the minimum resolution of graphics to be placed by addimage is 25dpi: graphics with resolutions lower than this are ignored.