simple Gradient

[alsnow22]

I am trying to make a simple Gradient with xara 5 but when I make it it has a white box around it and I can not get rid of it I have made the border 0 but it is still there I tried making it the same color as the Gradient but the borders can can not be faded can some one please help me

[HayTay]

alsnow, welcome to TalkGraphics. If you can save and attache your XAR file maybe we can see what's going on with your gradient fill. Until then I'm attaching an XX5 file with a linear gradient so you can see how it is accomplished. I'm also attaching a video from Xara.com, it's an introductory movie showing how to fill objects entitled Fills: Using linear, circular, elliptical and conical fills

I hope this helps you out,
Harry




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[steve.ledger]

Thread moved to Talk Graphics > Xtreme and Xtreme Pro

[HayTay]

Thanks Steve (again!). It took me a couple of tries, but, I finally figured out which BB Code tag you used for the different player. The video playback works much better and smoother now that it's been changed. Notes have been added to my BB Code reference printout.

[handrawn]

do not make the border value '0' - make the border value 'none'

a border [outline] value of 0 will still give you a visible border - it does not actually mean no-outline [ this is covered in the help section]

does this help?

[alsnow22]

yes sorry I ment I set it to none. when I make a new file and try to grat the image this is what I get


thank you for any help


ps your works no lines inbetween untill I try to edit it then save it and the new file it gives does not work

[Soquili]

Change your units to pixels and you can see that the position and rectangle size are not whole pixels.

Fractional pixels result in antialiasing to the drawing area colour, in this case to White. This is causing your problem.

Change the rectangle size and position so they are whole pixels.

[alsnow22]

sweet that worked but why does the position mater once exported to png?

[Soquili]

The png format isn't a magic formula to circumvent the laws of computer graphics.

[alsnow22]

ok so what I should say thank you