Help on abnormal results on Xara eps export!

[Roland Aalto]

Hi all,
In my normal workflow I I use Xara on all my design work and thereafter export the illustration into for example Photoshop...
Now there is a very anoying thing concerning
the result of the export when Xara for some strange reason always cuts a piece of the eps on the right side, try it yourself!
This can of course be fixed by placing a rectangle under the illustration before you export it but this means some extra work having to mask it off in photoshop etc.
Now is there anyone with the same experience or even better with a solution????

Best regards / Roland Aalto Pixdesign Stockholm

[Roland Aalto]

Hi all,
In my normal workflow I I use Xara on all my design work and thereafter export the illustration into for example Photoshop...
Now there is a very anoying thing concerning
the result of the export when Xara for some strange reason always cuts a piece of the eps on the right side, try it yourself!
This can of course be fixed by placing a rectangle under the illustration before you export it but this means some extra work having to mask it off in photoshop etc.
Now is there anyone with the same experience or even better with a solution????

Best regards / Roland Aalto Pixdesign Stockholm

[Soquili]

Hi Roland,

I can duplicate the problem, but I don't have a solution. Maybe someone more experienced will be able to help. I was experimenting importing the eps into Photoshop 7. I used convert text to curves and another time I converted the text to shapes before exporting. Both experienced the same clipping on the right when opened by Photoshop.

[John Rayner]

I export to AI then to PSD... Works fine, just have to size the drawing for 72 DPI before I export...

[jens g.r. benthien]

Roland,

I don't use the export function at all, I just print it to file with the Linotronic driver to generate an *.eps file. Import into Photopaint is smooth with a transparent background. Printing to an *.eps file is always safer and produces better results - at least this is my personal experience.

[alexbozhenov]

Rolando...

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I bet don't you use POINTS as your "unit" in drawing. If you change yours unit from whatever to points and see the fractional part in sizes (for example 256,5 pt), then Xara (and many other programs) should approximate the size. Since points are standard measurement in polygraphy, you have to keep your extreme sizes as whole number (integer).

I repeated your "bug", and also avoid it by making the extreme sizes as integer number.

I am not very good in English to explain it correctly here, but I hope it will make sence to you. In other words, keep your sizes integer (256,0 pt for example, not 256,5 pt).

[alexbozhenov]

Hmm... After several attemptions I found that Xara requires not only the integer numbers for the overall dimensions of illustration. Result depends on where is the "origin point" of illustration on the grid. And I found that to avoid any mistakes, we should place some rectangle (for example) under the illustration.

[John Rayner]

Hi Alex,

That sounds logical. jpgs pad and eps truncates fractions of a pixel.

[jclements]

FYI:

I had similar issues a few days ago when exporting with CDraw too.

JRayner:
I never realized "jpgs pad and eps truncates fractions of a pixel". Thanks

[jclements]

Alex bozhenov:

When you say the "origin point" of the illustration, do you mean:

1. The Page's origin of the illustration?

or

2. The origin of the spread (all objects) or selection bounds of the the selected objects?
If #2 would the origin of the selection be considered as the bottom-left corner of the bounds?

Or am I missing the point the of your explanation?

Regards, John