See the help file for more file types. Also, various file types can take different plotoption s. An additional option that is nearly standard to all file types is the width and height of the output image. Notice that if you use the animate or animate3d command to create your plot structure, outputting to a gif file will create an animated gif file. The following code creates the 3D animated Triple Tchebycheff surface that is shown in the Visualizing in 4D part of my personal webpage.
Maple programming is a long subject in and of itself.
All I can do here is refer the reader to some of the examples of procedures given below.