User Guide

90 CHAPTER 9: IMPORTING, EXPORTING, AND PRINTING
• Printing items to the printer
• Printing from other applications
IMPORTING FILES CREATED IN OTHER APPLICATIONS
You can import files created in image-editing applications, such as
Photoshop, using the Import command from the File menu. When you
import a file, the original file is copied and saved as a PaperPort item.
The file formats that you can import from other applications are
described in the following table.
Format Description
PaperPort file
(.MAX)
A format used in Visual Explorer or PaperPort.
Windows Bitmap
(.BMP)
A format used for displaying and storing
Windows images.
PC Paintbrush
(.PCX)
A format commonly used for paint applications.
Multi-page PCX
(.DCX)
A format for multipage PCX files.
Joint Photographic
Experts Group
(.JPG)
An international standard for the compression
of digital photographic images and a popular
format for storing images on the Web in
HTML documents.
Graphics
Interchange
Format (.GIF)
A popular format for storing images on the Web
in HTML documents.
Tag Image File
Format (.TIF)
A format that works well for storage and
exchange between desktop publishing and
graphic arts applications. TIFF also works well
between different platforms, such as Microsoft
Windows and Macintosh. Visual Explorer
supports single- and multipage TIFF.