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Importing and Exporting
General notes on exporting and importing
You may want to export MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 documents to other
applications, or export them for use on a website. Or you may want to import designs
from other sources. For easy transfer, Page & Layout Designer offers a wide range of
import and export options.
Firstly, it is important to note the distinction between saving and exporting files:
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SAVING deals with storing your work so that you can open it and work on it at a
later date. MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 saves your work in the .xar file
format. Think of this as the "master document" format.
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EXPORTING deals with converting designs to other supported formats. Exporting
allows you to use and distribute your designs. For example, you may want to
create a PNG file for a website, or a TIFF or PDF file for a printing company.
Exported files are no substitute for saved .xar files because they are not a
complete representation of your MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 design, so
always save your design as a .xar file too.
Recommended formats
The universal export formats, that can be read by the widest range of programs are
the bitmap formats, GIF, PNG and JPEG. These are also guaranteed to look exactly as
you see on screen in MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013. PNG is the highest
quality and can include transparency support and is recommended for Microsoft
Office applications.
PDF is the recommend export format for sharing files to be viewed or exported into
Adobe Illustrator. MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013's PDF export is very high
quality, is vector based, and supports advanced features such as graduated
transparency.
Other notes
With EPS and bitmap files you have a range of options on how to translate the data.
Some of these options can produce very large files (if, for example, your document
has a lot of graduated or radial fills or transparency).
File translation can take some time for a complex illustration.
Please note that other manufacturers can, and often do, change the specification of
other file formats. Information is given here in good faith but no guarantee is given
that files can be transferred between Page & Layout Designer and any other package.
Further, there are often numerous different variations of a given file format, and