I assume that people who wish to export selected objects in bitmap formats, such as GIF which support transparency, and have deliberately placed unselected objects as backgrounds to selected objects, do so to get the selected objects to anti-alias to the correct background colour, while not wanting to actually export the unselected background objects.
If this is the case there is a work around for the problem, you can edit the page background layer to have the appropriate colour or texture and the selected objects will anti-alias to the page background layer and the page background layer contents will not be exported.
Colours and textures can be applied to the background layer by, for instance, ctrl-dragging colours and bitmaps to the page background, the bitmap gallery and colour gallery also provide page background fill options.
I hope this will be sufficient to enable people to export in transparent bitmap formats in Xara X v1.0aa, there will be download available to fix this problem in the near future.
Apologies for the inconvenience.
Mark Goodall
Xara Ltd
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