Using "Insert File"

Bruce Pilcher

I am trying to trace an outline map. I have found various threads here. I am trying to use Insert File so I can then trace what I have inserted. Each time I try CC+ crashes. I click Dray>Insert File.

I select my file.bmp and click Open. The next thing that happens is CC+ just closes.

Am I doing something wrong? Any help or advise would be appreciated.

Thanks

Bruce

jslayton

So it's not that the image is too large.

The file dimensions indicates that a bmp file should be about 1MB, 3MB, or 4 MB to be in a format that CC3+ can recognize as a Windows Bitmap (.bmp) file. Maybe it's in one of the obscure .bmp variants that CC3+ can't recognize or just has an unexpected file type (that is, it's a JPEG file that was saved with a .bmp extension).

Can you open the file in something like MS Paint and save it as a new file of type PNG, then try to insert that new .PNG file? JPEG would also work, but you might lose some detail that way.

jslayton

How large is your bmp file (both in terms of pixels wide and pixels high as well as file size in MB)?

Bruce Pilcher

Hi:

Thanks for answering.

My file is 944X1196 Pixels and is 56.3kb

Bruce

jslayton

So it's not that the image is too large.

The file dimensions indicates that a bmp file should be about 1MB, 3MB, or 4 MB to be in a format that CC3+ can recognize as a Windows Bitmap (.bmp) file. Maybe it's in one of the obscure .bmp variants that CC3+ can't recognize or just has an unexpected file type (that is, it's a JPEG file that was saved with a .bmp extension).

Can you open the file in something like MS Paint and save it as a new file of type PNG, then try to insert that new .PNG file? JPEG would also work, but you might lose some detail that way.

JulianDracos

I never use bmp for anything. If you want a lossless format, TIFF is the way to go, but PNG also works.

JimP

But you can't insert a TIFF into CC3+.

Bruce Pilcher

Thanks jslayton, JulianDracos, and JimP.

Converting the file I was inserting to png did the trick. Now to find the instructions I was trying to follow to trace it.

Again thanks for the answers and support.

Bruce