Bitmap Export Dialog Box - Image Map Tab

An Image Map lets you have 'clickable' areas on the graphic when displayed in a browser. Clicking one of these areas jumps to a new web page. If you want to create an Image Map, use Web Address on the Utilities menu to add web addresses (URLs) to the different parts of your drawing. For general information on Image Maps see Image Map Overview.

This tab lets you export the associated Image Map at the same time as you export the bitmap. You can also export the Image Map separately by selecting Image Map as the export type in the Export dialog box. If you don’t want to export an Image Map, deselect both Export Image Map to Clipboard and Export Image Map to File.

Export Image Map to Clipboard

This copies the text to the clipboard so you can use a text editor to paste it into an HTML page. Note that this overwrites anything already on the clipboard. There is an option on the Bitmap Size tab to save the HTML IMG tab to the clipboard. Selecting either of these clipboard options automatically deselects the other option.

Export Image Map to File

This copies the Image Map text to a file. This is a quick way of automatically inserting the image map into an HTML file.

You can either:

Insert Image Map into Existing File: this inserts the Image Map into the specified file.

If the file already contains an Image Map with the same name, the existing Image Map is replaced.

If this is a new Image Map, it is inserted at the end of the file.

Replace Existing File: this overwrites any existing contents of the file. This option is useful if you want to save the image map text for use later.

Note that opening this file in Browser displays a blank window; that is, you don't see the graphic. The reason is that the file does not include the IMG tab needed to display the graphic. The IMG tag might look like this: <IMG SRC="filename.gif" USEMAP="#example">.

Dreamweaver integration

With this option selected, the bitmap in Dreamweaver is linked to the original Xara LX document. If you later need to edit the bitmap, Dreamweaver can load Xara LX and display the original document. For more information see Macromedia Dreamweaver integration.

Image Map Options

Name

Image maps are named. (Names must be unique within a document.) Include this name in the <IMG USEMAP=> attribute to identify the associated image map. (USEMAP="#example" for an image map called "example".)

If you are merging this image map into an existing file, you can either type in a new map name or choose the name of an existing map. This lets you replace an existing map with new data.

Approximate curves with lines

Image map polygons are a series of straight lines and this option lets you select how closely any curves in the clickable areas are followed. (Note that circles are a special case in image maps.) Very closely gives the best approximation. This increases the size of your web page and so makes it slower to download. Only you can decide which is the best option.

Save all clickable areas as rectangles

Ignore the shape of clickable areas. Save all clickable areas as simple rectangles that totally enclose the clickable area.

Movie—click below (not working in this version)

Image maps