Draw - Green Check - Paste.

This is usually the quickest way of inserting a graphic into your work. Draw your graphic, press the green check mark button, and then paste your graphic into your work. The only decision is whether to have an SVG version of your graphic available on the clipboard, but we will discuss this later on.

Draw - Save As - Insert.

This approach allows you to save a copy of your image separate to your work. Once you have drawn your image, choose File, Save As from the toolbar and select your desired output.

We recommend saving as an SVG graphic if possible. If you must use a bitmap output, we recommend PNG files.

To SVG or not SVG? That is the question!

In general, we recommend that you use SVG files if you can. There are two major benefits to SVG files:

SVG graphics are always rendered at the highest resolution possible on your device and there is no degradation in quality.

SVG files produced by our products embed the data for the graphic within the SVG file. We can only embed a graphic's ID into a bitmap file like PNG which means that the data for the graphic needs to be stored somewhere else.

SVG output does have some disadvantages:

Not all programs support SVG files. In particular, Google Docs cannot use SVG files.

Your graphic is rendered by the application/computer you are using and not all SVG renderers are the same. You might find That you do not like the output in some contexts.

When using the Green Check mark method of outputting graphics, you will need to ensure that your product is set up to add an SVG version to the clipboard. To do this, go to your Tools menu and select Preferences (select Preferences from the main menu on a Mac). Ensure that Add SVG to the Clipboard is checked.

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