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480 Importing and Exporting

• "FILE" > "EXPORT WEBSITE": Export the current website document to a location of your
choice on your computer.
• "FILE > "EXPORT JPEG": Export the current selection, or current page, to a JPEG file.
• "FILE" > "EXPORT PNG": Export the current selection, or current page, to a PNG file.

For more information, see the Getting Started chapter.

Exporting as a bitmap
JPEG, GIF and PNG are universal formats supported by most modern computer
applications. PNG is the highest quality. JPEG is better suited to photographic work, but
can produce acceptable, compact files (you can control the quality and file size).

GIF format only supports 256 colors, and although common on many websites, PNG is a
better format. PNG also supports semi-transparent graphics (use the True Color + Alpha
option), but this is not correctly supported by older Microsoft Internet Explorer versions (it
is by all other web browsers).
The fewer colors you have in a file, the smaller the file and the lower the quality.
However, when using 256 colors or less Xara Web Designer Premium provides very
advanced techniques to simulate a much wider range of colors, and so you can get very
high, near photographic quality results using only 256 colors or less.

See also GIF, PNG, BMP and JPEG export dialog overview (on page 483).

Important
Bitmaps are output at the current view quality so for best results make sure that
"WINDOW" > "QUALITY" is set to anti-aliased.
Exporting as SVG

Export either the currently selected objects or the whole page area as an SVG (Scalable
Vector Graphic) file.

The export dialog allows the setting of a dpi value (96 dpi default) for bitmaps should they
be included on the page and also the following formatting options:

• PATTERN (INKSCAPE)
• CLIP PATH (ADOBE)
• NON-REPEATING AS CLIP PATH

Exporting a Photoshop PSD file
Photoshop is a bitmap editor, so when exporting to PSD format all the vector objects in
Xara Web Designer Premium are rasterized. You can select the resolution (dpi) when
exporting.

Always save your work in Xara Web Designer Premium prior to exporting. Then, if you
wish to alter your original objects in the future, just load Xara Web Designer Premium,
make any changes and then export the required objects again.