Frame Gallery Overview
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The Frame Gallery is used to create animated GIF files. The gallery shows each frame in the animation sequence with the last frame at the top. (This makes it easier to understand the effect of the Background and Overlay flags, described below.)
Note that the Frame Gallery is only accessible in 'Animated' type documents. See Creating new documents for details of creating Animated documents.
New Create
a new frame
Copy Copy
an existing frame
Properties Frame
properties
Delete Delete
a frame
Preview Preview
the current frame or the complete animation
All
Visible Display all frames
All
Editable Make all visible frames editable
Background
and Overlay Controls the overlaying of frames
Current frame
The current frame is highlighted in the gallery and is the frame into which all newly created objects are placed. To change the current frame, just click on a frame in the gallery.
Many operations using the Frame Gallery are more easily accessible using the Frame Gallery pop-up menu.
Tips
If you import Xara LX documents containing
layers: the Frame Gallery uses layer technology to create the individual
frames. This means that to preserve the appearance of the import document,
Xara LX has to move all objects into a single layer. This means that when
you save the document, you lose any layer information. See Layers
and Frames for more information.
To edit all the frames in the document
(including the invisible ones) click both the All
Visible and All Editable
buttons.
Movie