You can turn any object in your publication to a graphical image (saved as a PNG file) of itself – this is known as Rendering. You may want to render an object because you have used many of the special effects, such as Flare and Shadow to create a stunning visual effect. This may cause the published version of your publication to run slower as these effects have to be applied to the object when the publication is run. However, if you render the object then visually it will look the same to the user but the object is converted to an Image object containing a bitmap image of the original object.
Create your object and add the effects and style that you want for the object. For example, the original object can be a Button, Text or Frame object and you could have applied a variety of effects and styles to it.
Select the object and right-click on it to open the right-click menu, and then select the Render option.
The object is then converted to an Image object with the same name as the original object. In the Image tab of the new Image object is a bitmap of the original object. Think of the bitmap as a snapshot of the original object.
Note:
The original object is deleted and replaced by the Image object – if you added actions to your original object they are copied to the new Image object.
If you selected a Frame object and it contains multiple objects within it, then the Frame object is replaced with the Image object and all the objects in the frame are automatically deleted.