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      <div class="title_topic3" id="xps10_pagetitle">GIF, JPEG, TIFF, BMP, and PNG</div>
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      <p class="para_topic"> Use these options to export part or all of the contents of the Graphics Window to a GIF, JPEG, TIFF, BMP, or PNG file.</p>
      <div class="title_division">Exporting an Entire Image as a GIF File</div>
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            <p class="para_item"> Select File&rarr;Export&rarr;GIF... This displays the GIF Image File dialog, displaying the file's default name.</p>
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            <p class="para_item"> You can accept the default filename or enter a custom name.</p>
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            <p class="para_item"> Optionally, select Use White Background to create the image with a white background instead of the current Graphics Window background color.</p>
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            <p class="para_item"> Click Apply or OK. The system creates the file and places it in the specified path and filename.</p>
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            <p class="para_item"> Select File&rarr;Export&rarr;JPEG... This displays the JPEG Image File dialog, displaying the file's default name.</p>
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            <p class="para_item"> You can accept the default filename or enter a custom name.</p>
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            <p class="para_item"> Optionally, select Use White Background to create the image with a white background instead of the current Graphics Window background color.</p>
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            <p class="para_item"> In the Graphics Window, using MB1, drag a rectangular area that encloses the image area you want to export.</p>
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            <p class="para_item"> Release MB1. The system creates the file and places it in the specified path and filename.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> File Format</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> Description</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> GIF and JPEG</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> Used widely on the World Wide Web. Images in these formats can be added to HTML documents.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> TIFF</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> You can display TIFF image files in Unigraphics NX by selecting View&rarr;Visualization&rarr;Display Image and selecting the image to view. You can import TIFF images for use as backgrounds in High Quality Image.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> BMP</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> Standard Windows bitmap file. You can import this format into Microsoft applications.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> PNG</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> Increasingly popular, PNG (Portable Network Graphics) format provides completely portable, lossless, and well-compressed storage of raster images. PNG can effectively replace many uses of GIF and TIFF. It is unencumbered by license or patent restrictions. It provides good compression for a lossless format, however the lossy JPEG format can yield smaller files.</p>
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