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Hour 5: Importing and Exporting StarOffice Documents |
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StarOffice supports a long list of graphics formats. Hour 11, "Adding Graphics to Documents," describes how to import graphic images into a document. This same process can be used to import saved image files into spreadsheets, presentations, or StarDraw files.
When you create a bitmapped image in the Image Editor (described in Hour 11), or a vector image in StarDraw (described in Hour 6, "Creating Graphics with StarDraw"), you can export that image in any of several bitmapped or vector graphics formats. To do so, choose Export from the File menu (see Figure 5.10).
Figure
5.10
The
Export dialog box enables
you to create many graphic formats from a StarDraw or
Image Editor file.
The following formats are supported for import and export:
Note - The file extension designations used in the Export dialog box are all three letters, based on the Microsoft Windows standard for which StarOffice was originally written. You might need to rename your exported files with different file extensions so that your Linux programs recognize them. This is true with JPG (JPEG), HTM (html), and others. |
HTML--Not really a graphics format, but you can export a drawing as a graphic within an HTML page
JPG--JPEG is a loss-y format used for photos and some Web graphics; JPEG produces very small files
PGM (Portable Gray Bitmap) --Used on UNIX systems and others
SVM--A StarView metafile, used in previous versions of StarOffice
TIF (TIFF, or the Tagged Image File Format) --The most widely used bitmap format for professional graphics work
WMF (Windows Meta Files) --Vector-based graphics files used by MS Windows programs
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