Animated GIF Problems

[steve.ledger]

Sometime in July according to Xara.

http://www.xara.com/us/products/xtreme/upgrade

We expect to receive the first stock in July 09

This probably means sometime early August at your door

[handrawn]

Jimi

Both Bill and Steve have only used one object in their animation and yes it will export the object only

The complication arises when you have more than one object in your animation - its then that the page size comes into play and clips your output

This is my experience - exactly the same as you in post #17

EDIt - by 'one object' I mean one contiguous set of objects - do you have un-contiguous objects in your animation, if you do that would explain it I think

[handrawn]

as per:

[ EDIT: it appears I cannot spell 'contiguous' in the file names, sorry ]

[handrawn]

clips single sets too if they are big enough

back to what I said in post #7 - page size imposes a 'maximum' limit on the animation...... I think basically that is it, not sure that is unexpected thinking about it, just different from how it was before animations had 'pages'

[handrawn]

what is interesting is that single set animations do not need to be on the page - provided nothing else is

if something else is, then the single set animation off page gets lost.. it would appear

[steve.ledger]

Yes I agree - looks like a bug with the 'area to save' (Drawing or Page).
This is definable for .swf - but was automatic with .gif in earlier versions.
Possible that the drag-to-resize page feature has introduced this.

I will report it.

Thanks for helping Steve.

[Jimi King]

It's reassuring to know that one isn't going mad.

Or at least COMPLETELY mad. Genius and insanity are very close neighbours after all.