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hello,
I am having odd output when exporting to PDF-X. I have attached the XAR file and PDF i get. Notice the black rectangle on top and the white line that turns grey on both sides. Is this a bug? It's the first time i export to PDF in XPRO 5, never had a problem before in XPRO 3.2.
Thanks
Matt
Hi Matt,
The black rectange and the white line that becomes gray are the effect of the shadow's bounding box.
I may well be a bug or simply the way PDF handles the bitmap shadow.
Shadows are bitmaps within Xtreme, not vectors.
Gosh Bill, I never thought of you that way. I more or less thought of you fixing bugs within Xara......>:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Soquili
:D perhaps a Freudian slip. ;)
Matt is that not also the result of using the gradient tool to achieve your card shape as well. The way that multi-coloured gradients are rendered when exporting has given you the grey line. Adobe never understands Xara's gradients because there gradients are compiled differently so it would be easier if you split your background up into 3 segments: top rectangle, white line and then lower rectangle. You then could have your front page shadow which would be rendered as a bitmap.
The shadow appears to be the most likely cause of the issues.
See the attached images.
The bounding area that marks the black rectangle and the white line match the selected bitmap within Adobe reader. This is also the same bounding area for the Shadow when selected within Xtreme.
Matt,
I added a rectangle transparent at 99% between the top shape and the gray one.
It is visible if you switch to outlines, it will force to render all the back shape the same way as the part covered with the shadow so you pdf result is consistent.
See attached file.
That is an awesome solution! Thanks i will keep this in mind.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luciano