User`s guide

132 CHAPTER 13: IMPORTING, EXPORTING, AND PRINTING
IMPORTING FILES CREATED IN OTHER APPLICATIONS
You can import files created in other image editing applications such as
Photoshop by using the Import command from the File menu. When
you import a file, PaperPort copies the original image and saves it as a
PaperPort item. The file formats that PaperPort can import from other
applications are described in the following table.
Format Description
PaperPort file
(.MAX)
A format used in PaperPort for Windows.
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. PaperPort supports
single- and multipage TIFF.
Portable Network
Graphics (.PNG)
Proposed standard replacement for GIF, but not
currently supported by browsers.