| Saving and Exporting Documents

To save your work for later use, choose Save (⌘S) or Save As... (⇧⌘S) from the File menu, and choose a location to save the document.

Saving a document also saves the print settings (from Page Setup and the Pages pane of the Info window) and whether the document is displayed as a palette.

To export the graphics in a document to a common image format, choose Export... (⌥⌘E) from the File menu and choose a format and location for the image file.

Which format you choose for export depends largely on where you intend to use the image:

• | TIFF format is a bitmap image format with support for full color, transparency and lossless compression. TIFF is a common format on Mac OS X.
• | PDF format is the native vector format on Mac OS X; the appearance of graphics and text will be preserved even when the image is resized or printed. PDF does not support transparency.
• | JPEG format is a bitmap format commonly used for embedded images in Web pages. It supports full color and variable levels of lossy compression.
• | GIF format is another bitmap format commonly used for embedded images in Web pages. GIF files support a very limited range of colors and transparency, but have very small file sizes.
• | PNG format is a newer format with support for full color, transparency, and lossless compression. Many newer Web browsers support embedded PNG images in Web pages.
• | HTML Image Map format is useful for documents containing URL links as actions on shapes. It saves both an image file and an HTML document containing an image map; open the HTML file in a web browser, and you can click on shapes to follow their links.

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