Exporting
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Translated from the Italian guide. Narciso itself is in Italian, so the names of buttons, menus and fields are shown exactly as they appear on screen, with a translation in brackets where it helps.
A Designer job becomes an image in two ways: Download locale (Local download) (you download it to the computer) and Salva Post (Save Post) (it goes into the Social media library, ready to schedule). Both entries are in the Salva menu of posts, stories and carousels; print formats follow another route (Print formats).
Download locale#
For each board it downloads a double-resolution PNG file (a 1080 px board gives a 2160 px image). The files are called <project name>_tela_1.png, …_tela_2.png… (spaces in the name become underscores).
During the operation Generazione immagini in corso... (Generating images...) and then Download locale completato con successo! (Local download completed successfully!) appear; in case of a problem Errore durante il download: … (Error during download: …). With several boards the browser may ask you to allow multiple downloads.
Download locale does not save the job and does not put it in the library. With panoramic carousels it does not draw the part that spills over onto the neighbouring board (The canvas).
Salva Post#
- Complete the job.
- Open Salva ▸ Salva Post.
- The program draws each board as a double-resolution JPEG, uploads it to the archive and saves the job as finished.
- After about half a second you are taken to Social media, Piano editoriale (Editorial plan) tab, with the library already open on the post you have just saved, which «jumps» to get noticed (New post).
From there the content is scheduled and published as described in Editorial plan.
- A post with several boards counts as a Carosello (Carousel) in the library; scheduling, however, uses only the first image.
- Stories and Pinterest formats end up in the library as normal images: the library does not know the size.
- Print formats never appear in the Social library and do not have Salva Post: they stay in Riprendi lavoro (Resume work) (Designer projects).
- When the content is scheduled, the library marks it «già programmato» (already scheduled): for the same job you have to go back to the Designer and do Salva Post again.
- Salva Post checks nothing: an empty canvas still produces a white image, and there is no warning if a text goes outside the board.
What the exported image contains#
The program reproduces texts (automatic line wrapping, upper case, underline and strikethrough, letter spacing, circular text, alignments including vertical and justified), images with filters and masks, shapes, icons and lines with arrowheads. It does not yet reproduce the shadow opacity (the shadow uses only colour, blur and distance) and the rounded corners of the text background (it stays a solid rectangle). Hidden elements in Livelli (Layers) are not exported.
If a photo fails to load during export it is skipped and the background stays in its place. Saving many boards with heavy photos can take time on slow connections (File formats and sizes).