To help make your content more understandable, you will probably want to include as many pictures and graphics as possible. These are widely regarded as one of the trickiest components to get right in your content, because of the complex considerations involved. Most of them concern making sure you have the correct number of colors, resolution, and graphic file format for your content's different output media. Graphics usually take a lot of time to create, so you'll have to balance that against their superiority as a communication device in some situations.
How Author-it handles your graphics
The Author-it File object has been designed to handle your graphics for you, reducing the difficulties as much as possible.
The File object enables you specify where to get the source graphic file, which can even be a different location for each output media. You can also specify what output file format the graphic should be published in, and other options like scaling and captions - also different for each output medium if you like. You can either keep the graphic source file outside your Library database (linked), or store the graphic file inside the Library (embedded).
Excluding graphics
You can even exclude graphics from some output media. For example, in this guide we did not include graphics in most procedural topics of our Help output, because you will usually be looking at the screen when using the procedure, and excluding graphics also minimizes the file size of the Help system.