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The screenshot below shows the full Ignite interface in Splits mode. Click on areas of the interface that interest you to find out what they do.

The toolbar allows you to perform standard program actions such as opening, saving, copying, pasting and undoing The edit bar gives you access to units, snapping controls, the insertion of rectangles and text, the paint transparent feature and the eye dropper and eye dropper actions menu This bar opens all of the 'floating windows' available in Ignite, these are Animation, Notes, HTML, Size & Time and the Colour Palette. The zoom bar contains the zoom slider, zoom display, zoom one to one, zoom back and the zoom to area buttons The arrange bar contains all of the actions you can perform on objects on your canvas, such as moving backwards and forwards in the object stack The preview bar contains options for viewing your output files, 256 colour preview, Mac simulation and controls for playing your animation This window contains the Ignite Cue Cards which offer you interactive advice on what to do next. Many of the Cue Cards contain Related Topics links to the Help file which you can use for more detailed information on specific dialog boxes and the Ignite interface The Edit Splits bar contols how you split an image into cells or merge cells together The tab bar contains the New Output/New Window button which is very useful for viewing your Source Artwork and Output files simultaneously. Next to it is the Source tab which reflects that you are currently looking at a source document. Once you have added a GIF or JPEG file to your document (using the New output button) a tab for the output file will appear here also This is the Inspector and is the key to using Ignite. At the moment you can see the cell properties for the currently selected cell in the split image, the Edit Splits pane and the Canvas pane

Toolbar
The toolbar allows you to perform standard program actions such as opening, saving, copying, pasting and undoing. It also features the Context Sensitive Help button at the end.

Edit bar
The edit bar gives you access to units, snapping controls, the insertion of rectangles and text, the paint transparent feature and the eye dropper and eye dropper actions menu.

Floating Windows bar
The floater bar opens all of the 'floating windows' available in Ignite, these are Animation, Notes, HTML, Size & Time and the Colour Palette. Most are also accessible from the Inspector.

Zoom bar
The zoom bar contains the zoom slider, zoom display, zoom one to one, zoom back and the zoom to area buttons.

Arrange bar
The arrange bar contains all of the actions you can perform on objects on your canvas, such as moving backwards and forwards in the object stack (i.e. change which object covers which other objects). It also contains the Object Relationship, Alignment and Group commands.

Preview bar
The preview bar contains options for viewing your output files, 256 colour preview, Mac simulation and controls for playing your animations.

Cue Cards
This window contains the Ignite Cue Cards which offer you interactive advice on what to do next. Many of the Cue Cards contain Related Topics links to the Help file which you can use for more detailed information on specific dialog boxes and the Ignite interface.

Edit Splits bar
The Edit Splits bar contols how you split an image into cells or merge cells together.

Tab bar
Ignite separates your original artwork from your web images. Your original artwork is created or imported in source view. To make a web image, click the New Output button on the Tab bar and choose a GIF or JPEG. An output file tab for each new web image will appear next to the source tab. Click the source tab to switch the view to your source document and the output tab to view your GIF or JPEG file.

Inspector bar
The Inspector is the heart of Ignite. It changes to reflect the currently selected object and gives you to control of all aspects of your artwork and output files in a single click.

In the image above you can see the cell properties for the currently selected cell in the split image: you can also see the Edit Splits pane and the Canvas pane.

Below is the same file in output view. The Inspector shows the Output file pane, used to set HTML properties, splits and filenames, the GIF file pane and the Adaptive palette pane where you control how Ignite optimizes your GIF file.

The same file in output view. The Inspector shows the GIF properties

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