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(on the text toolbar) selected, the text and the background scales to suit the values you type in. If you
specified a font size, the size of the text does not change but the background scales to the values you type
in. This is useful if you want to create several headings, all the same height and width.
AVI options. Clicking this will allow you to choose from any of the AVI codecs on your computer. A
movie codec is basically the system used to create the movie file itself, and some formats are better than
others. Use the default, or select a codec of your choice. For some codecs you can also set the quality
percentage and how often key frames are set, and you can click Configure
for more options.
Export options for screen savers (SCR)
You can export Xara 3D Maker graphics as a Windows screensaver (SCR) file. See Create screen
savers
for more details.
Export options for Flash bitmap format (SWF) files
These options apply to both static and animated SWF files. More information on creating Flash files. To
learn more about exporting movies see creating animations
.
Current window size lets you export just the area surrounding the text (Crop on) or the entire window
area (Crop
off.)
User defined lets you specify the dimensions of the bitmap. With Fit to width
(on the text toolbar) selected, the text and the background scales to suit the values you type in. If you
specified a font size, the size of the text does not change but the background scales to the values you type
in. This is useful if you want to create several headings, all the same height and width.
Color depth:
the more colors, the larger the file size. For animations where each image appears for only a short period
you may find 256 colors gives satisfactory results.
Dithering
(dimmed except for 256-colors). None creates the smallest files but you may see bands of colors instead
of smooth color graduations.
Transparent
(dimmed for High-color): select this for a transparent background to the animation. Deselect for a solid
background.
Lossless and quality (dimmed except for true-color): quality values below 100% give smaller files but
at a lower quality. Lossless
is equivalent to 100% quality. You may need to experiment to get the best trade-off between quality and
file size.
Export options for Flash vector format (SWF) files
These options apply to both static and animated SWF files. More information on creating Flash files
.
Note that Flash vector format does not support some Xara 3D Maker features (such as shadows and
textures). You can use Xara 3D Maker features not supported in vector format except shadows but
these get exported as bitmaps within the Flash file and can make the file much larger. If you intend to
output in SWF format, we suggest using the display as Flash option on the View menu.
Current window size lets you export just the area surrounding the text (Crop on) or the entire window
area (Crop
off.)
User defined lets you specify the dimensions of the bitmap. With Fit to width
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