Xtreme sets a thin line around my banner...

Hello,

i have searched for a solution but i have not found it.

So here is my problem.

I want to create a banner.

I worked for the background with the rectangle-tool there i put all the content i like to add.

So in Xtreme it looks like this:

http://www.visual-net.de/xar/graphic1.gif

Even when i say in xara that the 0.55 line (wich is exact the same colour as the rest of the pic) it should have no line -

It shows me always a thin line around my image - no matter in which format i save it (jpg/gif) it always looks like this when i add it in my webeditor (NetObjects Fusion):

http://www.visual-net.de/xar/graphic2.gif

So what can i do to stop it that Xtreme sets a thin line around my graphic...

Best regards
Michael

Well even I face the same problem! Even if I select the line (border) color the same as the banner, I always end up getting the border line..
Any solution to this??

It may be an anti aliasing problem in xara try tirning off anti alias- check this thread it may help
http://talkgraphics.com/showthread.p...=anti+aliasing
Anti-aliasing improves the quality of on-screen images by inserting extra pixels of calculated colors around the edges of objects on screen. This has the effect of smoothing the edges and of appearing to improve the resolution of the display. Anti-aliasing only occurs when the Xara Xtreme Quality setting is at its highest level. For more details, see Changing the screen quality of documents.
Also check Jedfrechette's post
http://talkgraphics.com/showthread.p...ghlight=blurry

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Originally Posted by parahandy

It may be an anti aliasing problem in xara try tirning off anti alias- check this thread it may help
http://talkgraphics.com/showthread.p...=anti+aliasing
Anti-aliasing improves the quality of on-screen images by inserting extra pixels of calculated colors around the edges of objects on screen. This has the effect of smoothing the edges and of appearing to improve the resolution of the display. Anti-aliasing only occurs when the Xara Xtreme Quality setting is at its highest level. For more details, see Changing the screen quality of documents.

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Thanks for your hint, but it doesn't work for me.

I can set the Antialiasing from "Maintain screen-aliasing" to: "Minimise visible anti-aliasing" and then the line gets a bit thinner, but it is still there....

Confusig regards
Michael

maybe change your page color to the same as the banner and then save

Did you see my additional info about Jedfrechette's post . here is the jist of it.

quote; vaguely seem to recall reading that the only way to completely stop Xtreme from anti-aliasing is to do something silly like drawing your image so that each line coresponds exactly to a pixel. To fix your problem I would simply crop off the couple of extra pixels that have been anti-aliased in a bitmap editor.

Hello,

xtreme sets a thin line around a graphic try to do the same:

Create a rectangle put in there some content and then export it as a gif or whatever you want.

On the first view everything looks OK:

http://www.visual-net.de/xar/detail1.gif

When you zoom in the window and go to the corners of the graphic you can see that xtreme sets automaticly a thin line around the graphic:

http://www.visual-net.de/xar/detail2.gif

I changed the in xtreme the line for the outline from 0.55 pt to 0 but you can still see a line around the graphic on the left side:

http://www.visual-net.de/xar/detail3.gif

So what can i do that xtreme will not set this thin line around my graphic or how can i make this, that this line is exact in the same colour like my graphic-bakground.

Thanks in advance
Michael

Tried that seems ok with me . As a last resort can you not crop off the edge?

Hi Michael and xtremeone,

The answer is very simple - you've drawn your banner on a white background and so Xtreme anti-aliases the edge to white to make it smooth. (This is not so much use for a rectangular banner but comes into it's own when the outline shape is more complex.)

If you know your banner is going to appear on a certain colour on the web page then you should draw a rectangle of that colour behind your banner before you export the banner bitmap. A good way to do this is to draw the background rectangle on a layer behind the banner layer and mark that layer as "locked" so you don't accidentally select it when you export the banner.

PhilM

See these threads:

http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthre...graphic+export

http://talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?t=21855

http://talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?t=21792

The solution is setting the page colour in Xtreme to the same colour as the banner. Just ctrl-drag the colour to the page.

If your banner is to be placed over a different background colour, set Xtreme's page colour to that background colour, and it'll anti-aliase towards that colour.

As mentioned earlier, the problem is associated with Xara antialising the edge of the selected objects you are exporting. It is likely your blue rectangle is on a white background in Xara and when you export it, you are seeing Xara's attempt to antialias the rectangle against a white background.

If you click on the Bitmap Size tab on the export window, can you make sure the Minimise Visible Antialiasing option is selected. If you want to preview the change, you need to click on the Preview button and zoom in again to observe the effect.

A second trick is to put your object to be exported on a background the same colour as the rectangle and just select and export the desired object. This is of more significance if you are exporting GIFs with transparent backgrounds in which case make sure the background colour is the same as the one you will have it against on the website.

I hope that works for you!

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Originally Posted by PhilM

Hi Michael and xtremeone,

The answer is very simple - you've drawn your banner on a white background and so Xtreme anti-aliases the edge to white to make it smooth. (This is not so much use for a rectangular banner but comes into it's own when the outline shape is more complex.)

If you know your banner is going to appear on a certain colour on the web page then you should draw a rectangle of that colour behind your banner before you export the banner bitmap. A good way to do this is to draw the background rectangle on a layer behind the banner layer and mark that layer as "locked" so you don't accidentally select it when you export the banner.

PhilM

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Hi Phil,

thanks this worked for me and it seems to be a perfect solution!

Thanks everybody for your time!

Best regards
Michael

One more tip. The background rectangle dosen't need a stroke (line width) set this to non. Now select the rectangle and make sure it's whole pixels W x H. In this manner with a rectangle there's no need for antialiasing as everything is exact whole pixels. Try it ~ export it from a white background, there's no antialiased edge. This is very handy if your'e working on a non uniform coloured background.