Pixelated export

[tsheffie]

I can do some wonderful 3D text graphics in Xara3D6. It is so easy and they look great until I export them and stick them on a web page and then they look terrible. The edges are so pixelated I just could not use them.

There has to be an easy answer to this. Suggestions please?

[Egg Bramhill]

Welcome tsheffie,

Without seeing your source Xara3D file or your exported graphic it's hard to say.

As a recommendation I'd try to size the window down to the size you want it in your web page and export as a jpg at 96dpi. Then insert it in your web page at 100%.

[tsheffie]

Yes, I did that tho I'm not sure about the 96dpi - haven't figured that out yet. I had been using a gif.

The only problem now is (and this may have been the problem all along) I can't get a transparency in the jpg mode and as I'm sitting it on a variable background - it won't work solid, beautiful as it is.

[Egg Bramhill]

You can't have a transparent background in a jpg. Therefore you've got 2 options. Export the image as a transparent gif set against the nearest colour you can find that matches the variable coloured background or import your background into Xara3D as a background image & export it as a jpg (although matching these up on an html page isn't easy as the browser resizing destroys this effect.

[tsheffie]

Ah. A graphic artist I am not. I need to ponder this. I have a feeling that the effect I am striving to achieve (as undefined as it is) may well be within the capabilities of Xara Xtreme ... but not in my clumsy hands.

Anyway, I bought this for my son for Christmas and I was just trying to be clever before he got it. Sigh.

[aridzone]

It's always a good idea to have the same background color as you are using
on your website.