saving out bitmaps from gallery as PNG

right click and save from bitmap gallery

with some files clearly listed as PNG in the gallery, xara defaults to JPEG for save [out]:

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it's not all PNG just some :banghead:

save from gallery is supposed to be quick and easy, it's a while now since i did this work in xara but I really am now beginning to regret coming back for this project; I don't remember it being this way , changing to PNG in the dialog time after time is a complete waste of time

why is it doing this ?

designer pro 18.5

Still a few wrinkles to be ironed out?

could be...

I was hoping there was some sort of under the hood rationale for this, perhaps related to optimisation - or the nannying 'this image would be better converted to a jpeg' philosophy that xara has on import which ignores completely artifact generation during processing - something I could switch out....

handrawn, I've tried with a host of PNGs and all Save into PNG. All had an Alpha channel.

When I made a Bitmap Copy of one as True Colour only and then saved out as a PNG, on re-importing, it reports as PNG but was then only presented as JPEG.

Acorn

hummm - thanks.... maybe alpha has something to do with it....