WhisperReporter supports virtually an unlimited number of images that can be placed anywhere in a comment, complete with word wrap-around if desired. WhisperReporter does not touch your original image, but instead it makes a copy of the image and stores it into its database, allowing you to archive your original images to a CD-ROM should you need an unmodified copy in the future for whatever reason.
When WhisperReporter makes a copy of the original, it can optionally scale the image down to a size that is more inline with the expected use within the report. Keep in mind that today's digital cameras can take high resolution images capable of producing high quality 8"x10" or larger prints, whereas your typical sized photo in a report averages at about 2"x3". By taking advantage of WhisperReporter's automatic image scaling, you can avoid the time consuming pre-processing of images and quickly produce high quality images for your report at a fraction of the size, saving disk space as well as keeping a PDF version of the report relatively small for faster emailing. For example, a four mega-pixel image might use about 800KB or more of disk space, but after scaling for use in WhisperReporter, the image might use only 50KB of disk space. When you factor in the number of images used in a report, you can quickly see how the report size would grow to be too large to email if the images were not scaled.
By default, all images are copied and scaled down to a high quality 640x480 pixel jpeg compressed (80% compression quality) image, suitable for a 4"x6" printed image, which yields excellent results especially if the printed image will be smaller (which typically will be). The pixel resolution, as well as the compression quality and scaling method, can be adjusted in the Preferences dialog (Setup ® Preferences, then click on the Images tab). See the section on Image Preferences for more information on these settings.