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The Panel tool

A custom dialog consists of multiple panels. This tool allows you to create the entire dialog in one session, and go back and alter earlier panels.

Existing Panels

Shows a list of all currently existing panels in the dialog. Clicking on one makes it the current one, and all edits now only effect this panel.

For each panel, a small preview is show, along with some text of the panel in the top and it's panel number in the lower right.

Add new

Adds a new panel and automatically makes it the active panel. Specifically the currently selected panel is copied and the new panel is inserted after.

Delete panel

Deletes the currently active panel and activates the next one.

Move ahead

Moves the currently active panel before the previous one.

Move behind

Moves the currently active panel behind the next one.

Export

This allows you to export the custom dialog. By default all panels will be exported as one image stacked vertically.

Format

Selects the file format you want to export the CD as.

• PNG (lossless) The PNG format is lossless, which means that the exported image be exactly the image the generator produces and will have very clearly readable text, but will create much larger files than the lossy formats.
• JPEG (lossy) The JPEG format creates clearly visible compression artefacts, and makes the image look more blocky. It makes text harder to read. It is widely supported on many websites, but they will often compress it further, reducing the image quality even further
• WebP (lossy) WebP is a far newer format than JPEG. It creates smaller file sizes at higher quality. However, it is not often supported by websites or get converted into JPEG instead, which makes them look much worse again.

Quality

If a lossy "Format" is selected, you can select a quality between 1 and 100. 1 is the worst looking, 100 the best looking. However, lossy formats with 100 quality is still not lossless!

Panels per image

Determines how many panels will be exported in one image. E.g. if you have 20 panels and set this value to five, four images with five images each will be created. If this value is set to 1, each panel will be exported as its own image. If this value is set to 0, all panels will be exported as one image.

Panels to export

Determines which panels should be exported. Sometimes, if you have a lot of panels, the browser might skip images during the export. To fix this, you can export the dialog in "slices", to not overwhelm the browser.

It is a comma separated list of numbers or ranges. A range is separated by a dash, like "1-8".

Download

Exports the cd with the current settings.

Estimate filesizes

Creates an estimate of how big the exported images might be. It generally overestimates a bit.