Previewing animated GIF files

As you build up the frames for your animated GIF, you can see what the animation will look like using the Animation Preview dialog box or in your web browser.

To preview an animated GIF

1. Create your animation.

2. From the Utilities menu, choose Preview All Frames or Preview Animation in Browser.

Tips

When you open the Preview window there is a few seconds delay while Xara LX creates the bitmaps that make up the animated GIF. There may be a similar delay after you click Refresh.

The preview window always shows the Animated GIF for the current document. If you change documents the Preview window shows a cross until you click the Play button.

Display pauses if you drag objects in the main document window. This avoids jerkiness in the animation during dragging.

Movies (not working in this version)

Creating Animated GIFs

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