Transparent GIF export

[diniel]

Please, someone tell me that I am missing something!!

I want to export the words "contact us" which are in white, with an internal bevel applied in the attached file. I want the background to be transparent (ie no blue and black lines to be shown).

I select the words "contact us" (converted to a shape so as not to upset PCs without the same fonts as me), and press CTRL+SHIFT+E

I select the button showing the wine glass on a transparent background, and the blue/black lines vanish from the preview.

Only, so too does most of the white from my bevel. Display the produced GIF on the indended stripey background, and it looks daft - with no white in it.

If I change the Xara file's background from white to, say, RED, the same thing happens - the white is removed.

Yet if I save the Xara X file and load it into CorelXARA2 (making sure the bevel is converted to shapes), I can do a normal CTRL+SHIFT+E, check the Transparent option, and everything is well. It removes the stripes but keeps the white in place.

I don't like the new export dialogue box at all - I much prefer the old one. Unless I can save the colours used and re-use the exact same colours over a series of exports, I can't see any point in the whole dialogue box - other that what was in Xara 2 already.

The only proper and useful improvement I can see is the ability to preview a JPEG in one pane and a GIF in the other.

Oh, and please build a "Don't tell me this again" toggle button in the error window saying that I must save my Xara document before Xara can include the Design Notes (for the Dreamweaver integration)!

[diniel]

Please, someone tell me that I am missing something!!

I want to export the words "contact us" which are in white, with an internal bevel applied in the attached file. I want the background to be transparent (ie no blue and black lines to be shown).

I select the words "contact us" (converted to a shape so as not to upset PCs without the same fonts as me), and press CTRL+SHIFT+E

I select the button showing the wine glass on a transparent background, and the blue/black lines vanish from the preview.

Only, so too does most of the white from my bevel. Display the produced GIF on the indended stripey background, and it looks daft - with no white in it.

If I change the Xara file's background from white to, say, RED, the same thing happens - the white is removed.

Yet if I save the Xara X file and load it into CorelXARA2 (making sure the bevel is converted to shapes), I can do a normal CTRL+SHIFT+E, check the Transparent option, and everything is well. It removes the stripes but keeps the white in place.

I don't like the new export dialogue box at all - I much prefer the old one. Unless I can save the colours used and re-use the exact same colours over a series of exports, I can't see any point in the whole dialogue box - other that what was in Xara 2 already.

The only proper and useful improvement I can see is the ability to preview a JPEG in one pane and a GIF in the other.

Oh, and please build a "Don't tell me this again" toggle button in the error window saying that I must save my Xara document before Xara can include the Design Notes (for the Dreamweaver integration)!

[rheaton]

Daniel,

Try changing your color to RGB 255, 255, 254 and export. I've found that if you try to create a transparent .gif of a shape or text that is filled w/ pure white (RGB 255, 255, 255), you get the anti-aliased outline of the object. With your bevel example, anywhere you have pure white content you get transparency.

As I said this is the only bug I've found so far. I've been running X here at work (PII-450, NT4.0 SP5, 256MB, SCSI, Matrox G-200) and at home (PIII-500, NT 4.0 SP5, 256Mb, SCSI, Matrox G-400) since last Friday and have had no reboots. (knock on wood)
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