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Units—Select inches or millimeters.
Image Orientation—Select portrait (tall) or
landscape (wide).
Dat a For mat —Select binar y or ASCII.
File Type—Select color or grayscale.
Prev iew—Check to generate a thumbnail image so
that file browsers can preview the contents of the
PostScript file.
Page Si ze—Setwidthandheightmeasurements.
Resolution—Setwidthandheightresolutionin
dots per inch (dpi).
FLC Files
The FLC (flic) file format is an Autodesk format
for digital animations.
There are two slight variations of this format.
Animations created by the earlier Autodesk
Animator® program have the
.fli file name
extension; the l ater Animator Pro® and 3D Studio®
R4 products create animation files with a
.flc
file-name extension. Flic files can also have a .cel
file name extension.
Flic files are restricted to a maximum of 256 colors
(8-bit).
Interfa ce
Whenaflicfileisthechosenoutputformat,
clicking Render or Setup in the
Render Output File
dialog (page 3– 8)
displaystheFLCImageControl
dialog.
Palette Method—Select the method to use to create
the 256-color pa lette for the file. Low builds the
palette based on the first frame. Medium builds
a 256-color palette for every frame and then
optimizes them into a sing le palette. Custom
uses the p a lette of another fi le that you specify.
Uniform uses a generic set of colors for cases in
whichyouwanttouseasetofflicfilestoallhave
thesamestandardcolors.
Number of Palette Colors—Set the number of colors
up to 256. If you specify a number less than 256,
the remaining slots in the palette are filled with
black.
GIF Files
GIF is an 8-bit (256-color) format developed
by Informix for the CompuServe
®
information
ser vice. It was original ly designed to minimize fi le
transfer times over telephone lines.
GIF is supported only as an input file format. You
can use GIF files as general-purpose bitmaps, but
you can ’t render to a GIF file.