Bug: Animated Gif Crash on Export

**handrawn** · 31 January 2009, 10:18 AM

OS - XP home SP3

intel core2 duo
nvidea 7200 graphics
ASUS M/B 2GB DDR2 RAM

the animation resized ok too .....

**steve.ledger** · 31 January 2009, 10:22 AM

Interesting you can succeed where three versions of Xtreme fail.
Even with a slightly more powerful machine.

I'll boot to XP and try next.

**handrawn** · 31 January 2009, 10:36 AM

interestingly I get the offset error with xtreme 2 but not with xtreme pro 4

the uploaded exported animation that worked has been removed I see - apologies if this was out of order, but as the xar had been uploaded, I thought that would be ok

**steve.ledger** · 31 January 2009, 10:38 AM

OK the results in Windows XPPro are the same.

For the heck of I tried with Windows 7 on the dual-core laptop as well.

Ditto - crash'a'roony

**handrawn** · 31 January 2009, 10:54 AM

ok - I rechecked just to make sure and it still works okay with xxp4 - takes a count of about 5 to work, but no error

still no joy on xtreme 2

**steve.ledger** · 31 January 2009, 10:59 AM

Curious.

The 'preview' (when ticked) doesn't show in any OS or Xtreme version for me.

**Regular** · 31 January 2009, 12:08 PM

I got an additional error - using Windows Vista 32 bit.

An error having to do with file association.

I noticed when I looked at the images, I found that some of them were linked to a layered PSD file. As I understand it, GIF animation in Xara Xtreme does not handle layers.

Could layered PSD files be the problem?
notice the 612Ball_007.psd-Layer 0 file referenced. Is this a layer that cannot exist in Xara GIF animations?
(two attached images)

I posted a bit ago that this post disappeared and now it's back again! arggg!

**Sheff** · 31 January 2009, 07:59 PM

I'm on XP 64 bit using XX4.

The original drawings were scanned as grayscale jpegs then brought into xtreme which transferred a PNG to photoshop to make it RGB and remove the background and pass a PNG back to xtreme. Xtreme successfully exported an animated gif of just the basketball rotating with different bitmap fills.

Then I imported this gif back into xtreme with the intention of using the animated gif frames as sequential bitmap fills. I opted to use only one frame for the bitmap fill. I deleted the extra gif frames from the bitmap gallery.

I don't know if any of that is helpful or useful.

Thanks,