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the original photo preserved at all. See the Editing Photo Files (on page 378) section of
the Photo Handling chapter for details.

Editing Bitmaps
Here you can select the bitmap editor that you want to use to edit bitmaps in Xara
Designer Pro X.

See Integration with external Photo Editors (on page 368) in the Photo Handling chapter
for details.

Bitmap transfer
Always use bmp
Images will always be transferred as bmp files. This is the fastest way to transfer images
to and from the bitmap editor, but bmp does not support transparency. So if you want to
edit bitmaps that include some transparency, or you want to introduce some
transparency while editing the image, don’t use this option.

Always use png
Images will be transferred to the bitmap editor as uncompressed png files, preserving
any transparency in the image. Most editors will return images as compressed png files
in this case and this may be slow for large images. Use this option if you want to edit
24bpp (opaque) bitmaps, but you want to introduce some transparency while editing in
the bitmap editor.

Automatic
This is the default option. Xara Designer Pro X will automatically decide whether to use
bmp or png to transfer the bitmap to the bitmap editor. If the bitmap does not have any
transparency (24bpp) bmp will be used. Otherwise png will be used. This option should
be fine for most editing, but if you want to introduce some transparency to your image
while editing it, choose the png option instead.

Scaling tab

This page describes the Scaling tab of the Utilities, Options dialog