File > Output > PNG, GIF, JPEG, BMP or TIFF Image

Dumps a bitmap of the screen to a PNG (Portable Network Graphics - *.PNG), GIF (CompuServe Graphics Interchange Format), BMP (Windows device independent bitmap *.BMP) or TIFF (tagged image file format) file. This file can be loaded into other software for report presentation and printing.

Since normally the screen background is black and element outlines are white, the user may want to select

File > Output > PNG, GIF, JPEG, BMP or TIFF (B&W flipped)

to exchange these two colours.

These files can be displayed using File > Image Viewer

BMP format is a well supported (most web browsers, word processors and paint programs) graphic file format. The main advantage of BMP format is support for all colours displayed. Unfortunately since there is no compression, these files can be very large (1MB or more each).

PNG format is a well supported (most web browsers, word processors and paint programs) graphic file format. The main advantages of PNG format are excellent lossless compression (normally 1% of the size of a BMP file) and support for all colours displayed. Refer to File > Output > Image Recorder for animation details.

GIF format is the more widely supported graphic file format. The main advantages of GIF format are excellent lossless compression (normally 1% of the size of a BMP file) and animation capability. Unfortunately GIF only provides support for 256 display colours. Depending on what is displayed, Map3D can use up to 512 colours and hence GIF may not reproduce screen images in all colours

GIF format has been implemented using the specification Version 89a ©1987,1988,1989,1990 Copyright CompuServe Incorporated, Columbus, Ohio.

This software uses the FreeImage open source image library. See http://freeimage.sourceforge.net for details. FreeImage is used under the (GNU GPL or FIPL), version (license version).