Border around shadows ruins gif export size problem

[jamesc]

Hi
Hope you can help with this. I want to make a 63X600 gif. I make one, its size is OK on the screen but in the export dialog it gets 7 extra vertical pixels - looks like it is the shadow borders from the wireframe. But if I move them the shadow moves... and I want them where they are!

HELP please fellow xarans



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[jamesc]

Hi
Hope you can help with this. I want to make a 63X600 gif. I make one, its size is OK on the screen but in the export dialog it gets 7 extra vertical pixels - looks like it is the shadow borders from the wireframe. But if I move them the shadow moves... and I want them where they are!

HELP please fellow xarans



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[jamesc]

I guess this is the same as mickie's question but still - how do I solve it? I know I can crop it in paintshop but that isn't elegant...



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[mike engles]

This is usually a problem with extra space on the
right of floor shadows.
The answer is to slice off the offending pixels.

Mike Engles

[davidm]

1. Draw an exact 63 x 600 rectangle
2. Place it precisely behind the area you want to export
3. Give it no fill or line colour (you can do this earlier, but it makes the rectangle a bit hard to select if you do).
4. Select the rectangle and all of the objects in front
5. Choose 'Apply clip view' from the arrange menu.
6. Export.

David

[Luciano]

this example uses the transparent rectangle technique, I think you don't even need to apply a clipview.
(except for transparent gif's)
Line colours in the example are added to show dimensions.
The "transparent" rectangle is in reality a "no-fill, no-line" rectangle.

Luciano

[This message was edited by Luciano on December 08, 2000 at 06:06 AM.]

[jamesc]

Thanks All

I had succes with David M's solution (hi David - nice to see you here, is the newish job giving you much time to lurk in Xaraland?). I also discovered - I have 8 versions to make - that I can drag-click and clone the clipview window onto (behind) all my other versions.

Luciano - your solution was less clear to me but maybe I misunderstood it.

Anyway - I still think it is a bug because (as yu see above) the size is given differently on the main screen and the export preview window. Just doing Ctl-Shift-e doesn't make the gif alter in size in my book.

Thanks again
jamesc



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[Luciano]

I simply meant that if you put a transparent rectangle above the image you want to export, and you select only the rectangle, you export also what is seen through.
So you get a gif of the exact dimensions as the rectangle.
The attachment shows the result of my previous example.

Luciano