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604 Importing and Exporting

Flate is lossless compression, the same compression used in PNG graphic files or zip
archives. FLATE can give better results if the PDF contains lot of schematic drawings with
less colors, but not recommended for PDFs with many photos.

JPEG Quality
Use the slider control to set the JPEG quality index when using JPEG compression for
bitmapped images. Values range from 0 to 100, with higher values specifying increased
quality and lower values specifying increased compression and the loss of some image
fidelity. The default JPEG quality is 85.

Rasterization Resolution (DPI)
For Xara Designer Pro X graphic objects that cannot be exported as native vector PDF
objects (things like soft shadows, feathered objects, bevels), Xara Designer Pro X will
automatically rasterize, that is convert to a bitmap. This option allows you to choose the
DPI (dots per inch) for the rasterization resolution using the dropdown list, or click USE
CUSTOM DPI and enter a custom value by checking the USE CUSTOM DPI option and
specifying an integer value between 20 and 600. The default preset value for
rasterization is 150. The higher the resolution, the larger the PDF file. It is not usually
necessary, even for the highest quality printing to use a value above 300dpi.
Options

INCLUDE HYPERLINKS: Select this option to preserve any objects containing hyperlinks in
the outgoing PDF file. By default, this option is selected for standard PDF documents.
This option is not selected and disabled for PDF/X documents, since hyperlinks are not
allowed.
Xara Designer Pro X supports a number of different link types and mouse-over actions,
which are used mainly when creating websites. Some of these features are also
supported in exported PDFs, but others are incompatible with PDF and/or not useful. Of
the many features available in the Utilities->Web Properties dialog, only the following are
supported with PDF:-

• Ordinary links to URLs (the ‘open link in’ options do not apply)
• Page links. When viewing the PDF you can click these links to navigate to the different
pages of the document, if the PDF viewer supports this.
• Links to anchors
• Popup title text (See the Mouse-over tab of the Web Properties dialog).

CONVERT TEXT INTO SHAPES: This option can be selected to convert all text content into
vector shapes. This option can be specified to preserve the appearance of text when
equivalent fonts may not be available on the target system or when font embedding is not
permitted. Note that the text in the resulting PDF file is translated into shapes and is no
longer editable as text. By default this option is not selected.

USE UNICODE FOR TEXT ENCODING: This option can be used to select the method to be
used for encoding text in the resulting PDF document. By default, this option is not
selected and text is encoded using the ANSI encoding scheme. Selecting this option
specifies that text should be encoded using Unicode.