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Export Drawings to GIF

 

 

 

 

The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) is a bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability. The format supports up to 8 bits per pixel, allowing a single image to reference a palette of up to 256 distinct colors chosen from the 24-bit RGB color space. It also supports animations and allows a separate palette of 256 colors for each frame. The color limitation makes the GIF format unsuitable for reproducing color photographs and other images with continuous color, but it is well-suited for simpler images such as graphics or logos with solid areas of color. GIF images are compressed using the Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) lossless data compression technique to reduce the file size without degrading the visual quality.

 

To convert your drawings to GIF, follow the steps,

1. Open a drawing from File->Open or click the Open button on the toolbar.

2. Click the menu item Convert->-->GIF.

3. Specify the output area, image width, image height, color mode, background color, output file name, and set select the area for conversion when needed.

4. Click OK button to confirm and convert your CAD drawing to GIF.

 

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