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An excellent reference on this topic is "Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats, by James D. Murray and William VanRyper, O'Reilly and Associates, Inc" Most of the information presented here is derived directly from this publication. Refer to
GFF Web Center Online
on the web, this is the O'Reilly (www.ora.com) site associated with the Murray-VanRyper work.
The
File Icon
, found on the Title Bar of each drawing, is a convenient export short cut. Use it's contextual menu (control click) or drag the icon to export drawings to other applications.
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Export
The Export Panel provides methods for saving drawings to other file formats. Specific documentation of each export file type is available by following the links below.
The top portion of the panel is a standard
Save File
navigation and selection panel. The bottom portion provides selection for the available file formats and associated parameters.
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TIFF
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Tag Image File Format, a bitmap format.
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PDF
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Acrobat Reader Postscript, a page description vector format. It is a format widely supported by OS X applications. Files in this format may be viewed by the Adobe Acrobat Reader supported on OS X and other operating systems.
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JPG
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Joint Photographic Experts Group, actually a form of compression but commonly used as a file format.
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GIF
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Graphics Interchange Format, a Compuserve bitmap format.
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ICO
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Windows Icon Family, Used for Favicon on the World Wide Web and as icons on other operating systems.
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BMP
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Historical DOS bitmap format, still in wide use in by many operating systems.
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ICNS
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Icon Family Format, Apple format for finder icons.
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PNG
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Portable Network Graphic Format, pronounced "ping" a bitmap file format.
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EPS
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Encapsulated Postscript, a page description language with vector and contained font composition.
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QT PICT
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Quick Time Pict, the newer bitmap form of the industry standard PICT image file format defined by Apple.
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Classic PICT
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The complex vector Macintosh drawing format, common on OS 9 and Classic - OS X or Carbon Applications. Also understood by many Windows and Unix applications.
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