The diagram for the current graph can be exported to the printer, one of several graphics file types (.pct (PICT vector graphics), .gif, .png), or a model export file (.mec, or if the API is installed, also .mxm) using the Print template:

filename 'name.ext' print

If the file named is 'lpt1', the diagram is printed directly to the default printer, scaled to fit on a single page. If the filename ends in .pct, .gif, or .png, a PICT, GIF or PNG file is generated showing the whole diagram at 100%. If the filename ends in .mec or .mxm, the graph (not just this diagram) will be exported to a MetaEdit+ binary patch file or XML models file. Again, all output between filename and print keywords goes to building up the filename to export to.

For HTML files MetaEdit+ automatically creates imagemap information to make GIF and PNG pictures clickable. When a filename...print command is executed in the generator, if the stream that is open after the print command is a file named *.htm*, an image map will be written to that stream at the current position. That position should thus not be inside any other tag; other than that, it may be anywhere in the body of the HTML file.

The image map includes a polygon entry for each object, based on the connection points of that object. The href parameter for each entry is generated by an automatically run subgenerator, _imagemap_href. The default for this is defined in Graph, and makes the link point to a local target named with the oid of the object, e.g. #16_2876. It also uses onMouseOver and onMouseOut to display the name and type of that object in the browser status bar.

You may override the default _imagemap_href generator in your own Graph types by making generators there with the same name. For instance, Project Model defines its own such generator. Add the USEMAP="#filename.gif" parameter to the IMG tag: the filename.gif should be exactly the same as the SRC parameter, preceded by #.