Lately, I have needed an image displayer for my Power BI report and I have decided to do a little research before I choose which one to use. After all, Power BI offers many of them at App Source, and the more choice I have, the pickier I become. Here is the full list of image displayers that I could find, and they are all free. Table and Matrix: These are between the options that let me display visuals on Power BI's visualization pane. The advantage is they come with Power BI. You don't need to download anything from App Source and they support URL. It doesn't require encoding the image's URL to base64, meaning you need to find an encoder tool, doubling your work. They might be preferable because they don't have the risk of simply disappearing as they are Power BI's own tools. It's possible to change the size of images but it's not possible to fit the image 100% to the frame. When I tried to small the frame, they both created a scroll-down menu which d...
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