html output

[Greg Titus]

On Sunday, January 6, 2002, at 06:07  AM, Howard Kaufman wrote:

> I'm not having any luck exporting a graffle document to html bit map 
> format.
>   Maybe it's my own lack of understanding, but all I get is a blank 
> page.  I've attached a sample.

Hi Howard,

What you are exporting is an HTML image map. I.e. some HTML that tells a 
web browser 'click on this part of the image to go to link A', 'click on 
that part of the image to go to link B', and so on. It isn't exporting a 
full web page (although Kevin just finished improving this feature so 
that it will, so you won't have this confusion in the next release).

So the HTML image map export format is only useful if you are assigning 
URLs to some of your shapes. The resulting file is nearly empty because 
you didn't have any shapes with links.

What you want is to export as either JPEG, GIF, or PNG. Any of these 
formats can be used on the web just fine.

JPEG does some lossy image compression and works best for documents with 
embedded photographs.

GIF images can only have 256 colors and only on-or-off transparency but 
the format is very common. If you don't use shadows, photos,  or lots of 
different linear/radial fills GIF is probably best.

PNG has great transparency and color support and is probably the best 
format for all graffle diagrams that aren't just embedded photos, but 
some older browsers don't support this format.

Hope this helps,
	--Greg