xara with my new job!

[rpc9943]

So my first day at wacky buttons I installed xara designer and I plan on making templates per button size. If I have any issues I'll post them. I'm converting over the measurements from a Photoshop template. Hope it works properly

[gwpriester]

Let us know how it turns out.

[rpc9943]

I'm about to start working on them now. My only concern is getting the dimensions exactly the same.

[rpc9943]

I am currently having a major issue with Xara P&GD6 ... Our company uses .BMP files, and I have been trying to export BMP at 300dpi, with pixel size 840x840. It won't let me choose the DPI size however. It always makes it 96DPI. We tried a workaround to type in a percentage, but it will be far too cumbersome to use this method as we use different template sizes. Should I not be using Xara for this? I'd like to, I find photoshop very annoying.

any help would be huge.

RonC

[gwpriester]

This is always confusing. If the file export size is 840 x 840 pixels the resolution is not relevant. 840 pixels is 840 pixels regardless of the dpi resolution.

[rpc9943]

We want the file header to be written the correct way, so that when it opens, it is open at 2.8inches x 2.8inches with 300dpi. This is so it coordinates with specific software that we use here.

[covoxer]

Create new unit that represents a 300 DPI pixels. Set this unit as default and for the ruler. Use it everywhere and the resulting export will be 300 DPI.

[rpc9943]

is the only way to export to the page size with objects lying outside of the canvas, to use clipview with a rectangle with the exact dimensions of the canvas?

also, I would like to know if I could have PSD export default to 300dpi whenever i export... Is that possible?

Thanks
RonC

[amoore]

You can also put a rectangle of the requisite size, color and position below the objects, then export the rectangle using the True Color color depth (not True Color + Alpha).

[mwenz]

Just a question because I am not understanding something.

Are these pin-on (or otherwise) buttons? Does the output device have to use BMP files or are other formats fine?

I ask the second question simply because I typically wouldn't use BMP files for final output to any device and am ignorant whether such an output device that requires BMP files actually exists.

Thank you, Mike