XaraX1 Transparent .tiff - am i missing something?

Hi all,

Im not sure if im missing something here, but isn't .tiff supposed to support transparency?

Exporting to .tiff format we cant make the background transparent ?!

A transparent tiff file requires an Alpha channel. As far as I know, Xara X¹ does not support alpha channels in tiff files. Not all graphics programs support alpha channel tiffs, older versions in particular.

Thanks for the reply Bill.

Does XaraXPro support Alpha channel in tiff files ?

I just now checked Xtreme Pro to see if it supported transparent tiff and from the export dialog box, it does not. No colour depth option that has alpha channel.

Bill...am I right that currently transparency is supported only in GIF and PNG, among those commonly used on web pages?
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Will

Yes Will, that is correct.

There is a Jpeg2000 image format that supports transparency, but I don't know of a program that currently supports it. There are probably some out there, but I don't know of them.

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Originally Posted by Soquili

Yes Will, that is correct.

There is a Jpeg2000 image format that supports transparency, but I don't know of a program that currently supports it. There are probably some out there, but I don't know of them.

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PSP XI supports JPEG 2000, but I tried it on our web site and neither IE or FF would show the image, so I dropped these. Newest is not alwas best...:eek:
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Will

Thanks Guys,

Thats a real shame...i know Serif's Drawplus7 supports alpha channel transparency in .tiff and hoped XaraX did too..one for the wants list.

Whats wrong with PNG? :cool:

Whats wrong with PNG?

People's ignorance.

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Originally Posted by jclements

Whats wrong with PNG?

People's ignorance.

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Not only people's ignorance...but it is only with the latest verisions of IE-7 that this browser could handle transparent PNG's properly.
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Will

Not only that but not one printer i deal with will accept .PNG format and you cant export CMYK .PNG