Picture Export Functions

[Windows Platform Only, Professional Edition and above]

VPE is able to export pages or rectangular parts of pages from the document to image files.

The supported formats for Picture Export are:

•BMP

•WMF (Windows only)

•EMF (Windows only)

•JPEG (compression ratio can be set freely)

•PNG

•TIFF 6.0 (Fax G3, Fax G4, LZW, Packbits, Deflate, JPEG, Multipage)

•GIF (Multipage)

For all bitmap formats you can specify the color depth and the resolution (in DPI). Additionally dithering is possible.

Exported Metafiles:

Text justification and included bitmaps may not be correctly displayed, if you re-import the generated metafiles into the preview, because exported metafiles are always rendered to a virtual 600 DPI resolution. So displaying them on the 96 DPI screen brings tolerances into the object placement due to coordinate rounding problems. Nevertheless if you print them on 300 DPI printers, or a multiple of 300 DPI printers (600 DPI, 1200 DPI, etc.), they are printed perfectly.

The following restrictions apply only to exported WMF files:

•Barcodes are not exported

•Metafiles inside the document are not exported

•Some software does not rely onto the information provided in the header of the WMF about its dimensions, instead it scans the WMF file to compute its dimensions. This can cause problems, if a part of a page is only exported, when objects which intersect the part are also outside this area. The computing software will include the whole object and distort the WMF. This is a problem of the software, which tries to be too clever.