2013

Importing and Exporting 337
• DRAWING: The area covered by objects.
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SELECTION: The area covered by the objects in the selection. Only available when
objects are selected.
Anti-aliasing
Anti-aliasing improves the appearance of graphics by smoothing jagged edges:
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MAINTAIN SCREEN ANTI-ALIASING: The exported bitmap uses the exact same
positioning as shown on screen, and so has identical anti-aliasing. This can result
in the edges of objects being slightly blurred because they do not fall exactly on
pixel boundaries.
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MINIMIZE VISIBLE ANTI-ALIASING: This will slightly reposition the objects by
fractions of a pixel to minimize the anti-aliasing around the edge of the exported
bitmap. If in doubt which option to use, select this.
Put HTML Image Tag on Clipboard
This lets you save out the basic HTML IMG tag information when you save the
bitmap. You can then paste the tag into your text or external HTML page editor.
Options tab
With this tab you can alter JPEG compression and turn on progressive/interlacing
options if required.
Progressive: (JPEG only) Selecting this option creates a progressive JPEG. This is
useful when the JPEG is large and used on a web page. Web browsers will start
displaying the image before the JPEG file has completely downloaded.
JPEG Quality: (JPEG only) A low setting will result in a small file with a loss in quality
whereas a high value will give only slight file size reductions, but high quality. Note
that a setting of 100% will still compress the file. A setting of 75% gives good
compression without causing a noticeable loss in quality for most uses.
Interlaced: (GIF and PNG only) This is like progressive JPEG. In the browser the
picture first appears as a low resolution image. As more of the file loads, the
resolution increases.
Transparent: (GIF and PNG only) This makes any areas not covered by the selected
objects transparent. Selecting this option automatically makes one entry in the palette
transparent.
Export each layer to a file of its own: Selecting this option when exporting a design
that contains multiple layers results in a separate file being exported for each layer.
The names of each layer (as set in the
PAGE & LAYER GALLERY) are used to name the
exported files.