Actually I don't know what would be the point with that. I can get the blue if I really want to by making it non transparent but then it doesn't solve the problem of how to make a transparent animated gif. Anyways that would require a lot of extra steps which wouldn't result in any real solution. What I really want to know is if this is the way Xara has always worked and if I am doing something wrong here or is it a bug. Or a feature http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif I mean there are situations in web design where using transparency in a gif are imortant that is the whole reason why the feature exists.

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