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Freeway Reference: Working with Graphics

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Animated GIFs

Animated GIFs are special GIF images that contain multiple image frames. When viewed in most web browsers, the frames are played back,

just like the frames in a piece of film. Animated GIFs are widely supported and are an excellent way of putting simple animations on the

web in a form that can be accessed without downloading and installing a custom plug-in for the browser.

Freeway cannot be used to create animated GIFs, but you can import them. Animated GIFs can be combined with other graphic items

on output, but this can degrade their performance and result in unwieldy files.

When working with animated GIFs, it’s best to import them as pass-through graphics or turn off the Combine option for them. This

prevents them combining with other page items and gives better performance.

Pass-through graphics

Pass-through graphics are images that Freeway exports without modifying in any way. You might import an image as a pass-through

graphic if you have already optimized its color palette in another program (although Freeway’s Adaptive option also preserves existing

color palettes). Pass-through graphics should normally be in GIF, JPEG, or PNG format, since other graphic formats are not directly

supported by web browsers. If you import other formats (such as TIFF or PICT) as pass-through graphics, Freeway will treat them as plug-

in content, and web browsers will only display them if a suitable plug-in is installed—this is true even if the graphic appears in Freeway.

In general, it is not advised to use pass-through for graphic formats other than PNG, GIF, or JPEG. Graphics that are exported in a

standard web-ready format, such as GIF and JPEG, can be viewed in all browsers without requiring plug-ins. However, graphics that are

not already in GIF or JPEG format should normally be imported into a graphic box, so that Freeway can convert them to the appropriate

format.

Note: It is important to remember that previewing your site with a Mac

browser may show certain graphic formats not supported in other browsers on

other computer platforms. The QuickTime browser plug-in, for example, can

display PSD, TIFF and PICT graphics. Users who don’t have this plug-in may

not be able to view pass-through graphics saved in these formats.

To import a pass-through graphic

1. Draw or select an HTML box and choose Import… from the

File menu. The HTML box can be table-positioned or a CSS

layer.

2. Use the Import dialog to find and select the graphic file you

want to import.

3. If the chosen file is in a suitable format, such as JPEG,

GIF, or PNG, Freeway will have selected the Pass-through

checkbox.

4. Click Open.

You can also import pass-through graphics into a rectangular

graphics box by selecting the Pass-through option in the

Import dialog. The box will be converted into an HTML box

after the graphic has been imported.

Pass-through graphics cannot be scaled, cropped or transformed in any way on the Freeway page. Unless they are set to export as layer

items (Freeway Pro), they cannot have any other item placed on top of them. If the imported image is larger than the box that holds it,

it will not be displayed at all, nor will it output—it will overflow the box and display a cross through it.

To fit the box to the actual size of the imported image, choose Fit Box to Content from the Item menu. If having done this, the image

still does not appear, it may be that the page itself is too small to contain the image. Make the page larger using the Page General panel of

the Inspector palette to increase its width and/or height.

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