Exporting portion of diagram as image

You can export some shapes in a diagram as an image file by selecting the shapes you want to export then perform export. To export selected shapes to image:

  1. On a diagram, select the shapes to be exported.
    Selecting shapes to export as image
    Selecting shapes to export as image
  2. Select File > Export > Selection as Image... from main menu.
  3. In the Save dialog box, set the image quality. The higher the quality, the clearer the image, the larger the image size.
    Set image quality
    Set image quality
  4. Select the image format at the bottom of dialog box.
    NOTE: There are two options for exporting as PNG files - with and without background. With background will export diagram's background color. Without diagram will ignore the background color by exporting transparent background.
    NOTE: You can export VP-UML diagram to native PDF format. Since the exported PDF is of a small size, it can save a lot of space. Also, because the diagram in PDF is a vector, it is scalable.
    There are two different options when you export. For PDF(diagram per page), all the diagrams selected will be exported in the same PDF file. Each diagram will occupy one page. For PDF(diagram per file), each diagram selected will be exported in one new PDF file.
  5. Specify the filename of the image file.
  6. Click Save to export.
 
2. Exporting multiple diagrams as images Table of Contents Chapter 14. Extend functionalities with Open API
 

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