How to export multiple images

[7d7]

Hi all.

Let me post a small (but quite important) question for which I have not found any answer on the web:

I am using Xara do draw multiple images (buttons etc) and store them in one .xar file.
All images are named.

What I would need is a way how to select all (or some) images and click somethign like "export all to png",
which would create one png for each image according to the name of object.
Exportign one by one is quite annoying ... :/

Is there any way how to achieve this?

Thanks and enjoy drawing! :-)

[Acorn]

Simply export the page to a known folder.
If the page is called index, there will be a folder called index_htm_files.
In that will be all your Named pngs.

I am sure someone else will remind me what the setting is to ensure all the images are pngs automatically.

Acorn

[handrawn]

that's a 'web export' - right? worth pointing out for those who are not doing web docs

[Acorn]

that's a 'web export' - right? worth pointing out for those who are not doing web docs

Quite right, File > Export Website... or File > Export Supersite...

Even so, in Preview web page, if you open a browser window, you can even drag to a folder and the item is copied with its name. YAXS.

Acorn

[gwpriester]

I do not know of any automated way, but if you put each image on a new layer and export as PNG there is an option to export each layer as a separate png.

[angelize]

I have used Acorn's method before and it works OK, but there is a but. Basically you want to go File > export and choose website(HTML) from the file type list or click the publish icon and select the HTML button on the flyout. Save the exported website to a local folder on your computer. Inside that folder look for the index_htm_files that Acorn mentioned. Your files will be numbered and here is that but, there will be two for each image. One will be at 96dpi and one will be at 192dpi. As this is a website export you get screen resolution images. so if you are going to use the images for web/screen use this is quick and easy and you get the two different resolutions.

Gary Priester's method is great for images that you might need for print documents as you can set the resolution as high as you want. You just need to create your own folder and export into that.

[Acorn]

I am sure someone else will remind me what the setting is to ensure all the images are pngs automatically.Acorn

Found it: http://support.xara.com/index.php?/K...rting-as-html; simply add 'png' as a Name.
having now played with Gary's approach but exporting images from different layers, it has great potential.
In the Page and layer Gallery, repeated clicking the New layer button creates as many layers as you need.
I then dragged each object to its own layer.
I found that you need to centre all the objects else you get a lot of padding.

Thanks Gary,
Acorn