or use the Save Layout command
in the File menu to open the Save Layout dialog.
By default the file name extension .lay will apply to the saved layout.
The layout is saved in an SVG-compatible format.
Image objects are saved by reference. This means, that the image is represented by a pointer to the original image file.
If you later move, delete or rename any of the image files referred in your layout there will be unsatisfied references, and these images will not be loaded when you restore the layout.
If you restore the layout in another file system environment than the one in which it was saved (for example restore a layout saved in a Windows environment on a UNIX platform) all image references may be wrong because the path names used to refer to the images are invalid in the new context.
This problem can in many cases be solved easily by means of path translation. If an image is not found you are prompted for an alternate location, and you may choose automatically to search for other missing images in the same place.
If your layout includes temporary images, for example screen captures, you get a warning when you save the layout:
or use the Open Layout command
in the File menu to open the Open Layout dialog.
You can load the layout into an empty canvas in which case the canvas size is changed to reflect the size of the layout you open.
You can also insert the layout into a canvas which is not empty. The canvas size will then remain unchanged, and all the objects of the layout you load will become selected (unless some of them are locked or hidden).
The format used for Save/Restore is SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics). Note, however, that EasyCopy Montage is not supposed to be a general SVG viewer, and you cannot expect, that SVG files produced by other applications will be imported succesfully.