Repel Text playing up

[Tao jones]

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

[Tao jones]

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

[steve.ledger]

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.

[steve.ledger]

Can you post your .web file Roger?

[Tao jones]

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

[steve.ledger]

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.

[Tao jones]

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

[steve.ledger]

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.

[Tao jones]

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

[steve.ledger]

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.