Hi, I am getting the text slightly distorting and getting darker when I repel with this image (10 pix). I have cut it out in webdesign and gave it a slight feather. Me or the program?....thanks tao
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Hi, I am getting the text slightly distorting and getting darker when I repel with this image (10 pix). I have cut it out in webdesign and gave it a slight feather. Me or the program?....thanks tao
I just did a silhouette of the image and the text repels ok. When you cut out a part photo is there an option to make a bitmap copy. I couldn't see it on a right click...t
Hi Tao.
The text which overflows into the bounding area of the bitmap appears to be also being exported as a bitmap.
Make certain that you haven't anything accidentally grouped and that the repelling image is still an intersected shape.
Can you post your .web file Roger?
Hi Sledger, I couldn't find how to make a bitmap copy in WD so I dragged the cut out image into xara and made a bitmap copy. Placed it back into WD repelled text and it worked. Maybe we need the 'make bitmap copy' in WD for cutouts...t
Hmm - there's a big bug here Roger.
I just tested several bitmaps which I intersected a shape from and then repeled the text under it. Even in WD preview you can see the effects of this, and once exported the text was also exported as part of the bounding area of the bitmap.
You can easily see this if you zoom the browser page.
yep it looks like the intersected shape has to be converted to a transparent PNG in xara. I haven't tried to upload anything to web so I don't know if it works as it did in the last attached example..roger
Roger if you set the repelling photo in Web Properties to export as PNG instead of letting Xara Web Designer decide, this seems to solve it.
That is some info that would be good to be made clear about intersected shapes having to be converted to png before uploading to web, especially if used to repel text....I think I will just cut them out in xara and convert in xara before placing on a web page in WD.roger
I just tried it in WD it did work fine
For users without Xtreme, the method described in post#8 does the job, and once known is quickly done, click image >> Ctrl+Shift+W (thumb/pinkie/forefinger ;)) >> Image tab>> PNG (For best graphics) >> apply.
Interesting how different we are. I do it pinkie/ring-finger/forefinger. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by sledger
Yes, the problem is that JPG can't have transparency so the overlapped text is rendered in to image. So if you need overlapping text under image, use any of the recommended finger combinations and force it to be PNG. :D
being an old martial artist I use elbow/knee/forehead....
Depends how well you do the Vulcan salute I guess ;)Quote:
Interesting how different we are.
The Xtreme 4 html export (always exported as PNG unless given the name JPEG) mind-set is the problem for anyone migrating from Xtreme 4 to Web Designer for their WYSIWYG web designs.
People new to Xara software via Web Designer shouldn't be affected in this way.
However I might suggest a mechanism whereby any photo which is clipped, particularly where the shape is irregular, be forced to export as PNG rather than following the JPG-in / JPG-out default condition.
Roger: LOL!
:eek: :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Tao jones
As John pointed out this is not bug, you have a semi-transparent bitmap on top of some text, and that bitmap is being exported as a JPEG. JPEGs can't do transparency. so force it to a PNG in the Web Properties dialog, Image tab. No need to manually convert it to a PNG.
The system is automatic most of the time, but not always, and a clipped JPEG is one example where we just can't tell whether it should be a JPEG or PNG, so you have to give us a hint.
There is a downside to converting photos to PNGs, and that's file size, and this is mainly why we do not do this automatically. You might have this image over other graphics or plain background and in that case a JPG is fine and preferable. It's only when over some text that it's not, and then it depends on things like its repel margin, and how irregular it is.
There is a work-around, that allows you to have both a JPEG (put the image under the text) and repel the text around it (put a 'mask' image' above the text and make that repelling, then set it to be 99% transparent). This way the almost completely invisible mask is doing the repelling, but the image itself can be a JPEG and can be under the text. Soft Group them together and now it acts like a single repelling object.
BTW Tao, that's a beautiful website.
OK not strictly a bug as Xara expect this, but I don't think it is expected by the majority of users who are thrilled to have text repeling available to them in their designs. As shown by Roger, the result was unexpected and unitially unfathomable and, as mentioned, anyone with prior-learning from Xtreme's handling of the same thing can be caught out..
From a users pov, there needs to be something more obvious about the effect an intersected irregularly shaped jpg photo, which is set to repel text under, will have on the final output.
I too noticed that an popup image I was using had some text around it after exporting. This is good to know and I'll add it to the guide. :)
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It appears that I use at least 3 different finger combinations for this short cut! :eek: I would never suspect I do.Quote:
Originally Posted by sledger
pinkey/ring-finger/forfinger
thumb/ring-finger/middle finger
thumb/ring-finger/forefinger
Interesting. :rolleyes:
I don't use any fingers at all. ;)
i find using just the one finger can usually repel most people!! :D
Can this be remapped within the program?Quote:
Originally Posted by sledger
thumb, forefinger, middlefinger is more natural for me. thumb, pinkie,forefinger is like Twister for your hand.... :D
If you mean keys, then no. If you mean fingers, then probably in the hands.dll. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by ckh
Indeed. This one is also possible. Interesting how many different ways there are. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by ckh
Hmm that forces my elbow out like a wing :DQuote:
Originally Posted by ckh
I never thought about the fingers I used until I made that first post :o
Here they are dancing the on the keyboard to Crtl+Shift+W