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The mapedit program

The mapedit program, written by Thomas Boutell, is a tool for Microsoft Windows and the X Window System that allows you to set up image map files interactively in either CERN or NCSA format. It displays a GIF format image and allows you to delineate regions on it by clicking and dragging the mouse. The program automatically creates entries in the map file using the selected format. mapedit also has a test function whereby you can click anywhere on the image, causing the region you have clicked on to be highlighted, as illustrated below. Regions are checked in the same order as they are listed in the map file, so if things do not appear quite as expected, it may be due to overlapping regions as described above.

The mapedit tool makes setting up image maps quite straightforward, but it is not possible to edit existing regions with the current version (1.1.2). It would be useful if you could drag on a corner of a region to resize or change the shape.

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