Background picture in dynamic mode

Question

When I want to add a background picture (file/preference), the dynamic mode does not work : I don't see the background picture... In other mode it works (the background appears), but not in dynamic mode...

 

Is it anything to do to arrange that ?

Answer 1

Dynamic works as intended. This is a rather esoteric setting that places the background image at diagram location (0, 0). Additionally, a dynamic background image is affected by scrolling and zooming. You can verify that dynamic works by removing all elements from your diagram, then creating a single node, explicitly specifying (0, 0) as the node's location, and finally using "View" -> "Fit Content".

Are you sure that dynamic is the background image behavior you need? All other available behaviors are much more common.

Comments

I would like to have the possibility to size the background picture as I want, to lock it, and then that the background follow the zoom in the same proportion than nodes and edges...

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Well, scale the background image to the desired size in an image editor such as Photoshop or GIMP before displaying it in yEd.