Operation Manual

Images, Animation, and Multimedia 265
Setting image export options
When you publish your site, WebPlus applies certain global settings to
determine how each image—whether drawn, pasted in, or imported—ends up as
a separate bitmap displayed on the web page.
Here's a quick summary of the conversion settings as they're initially defined for
web publishing:
• Each referenced image is exported as a separate file.
• Any image you inserted as a GIF, JPEG, or PNG is exported as the
original file, using its original file name.
• Inserted metafiles and all other graphics are regenerated as PNG
images.
You can alter these settings, but before doing so you should review the "logic"
WebPlus applies to publishing web graphics. First, WebPlus has one default
format to which all graphics will be converted on export—but you can make
exceptions to this rule by specifying that certain image types should remain as
their original file. Initially, PNG is the default format, but with overrides set for
GIFs and JPEGs. That's why, using the initial settings above, PNGs stay as they
are while all other graphics get converted to PNGs.
You can check and change these settings in the Site Properties dialog (File
menu). The settings there are global and apply to all graphics in the site—but
again you can make exceptions, in this case for individual graphics. To do so,
for a selected graphic you could:
• Use the Export Options... (Format menu) or the Image Export
Manager (Tools menu) to set the export format of particular images
on a case-by-case basis.
- or -
Convert certain images to a specific format beforehand using the
Tools>Convert to Picture.
This combination of global and local settings gives you almost total control (if
you care to exercise it) over how your graphics make it onto your web pages!
Let's look first at how the global settings work.