Trimming what's not on canvas

**Liora** · 24 October 2010, 09:09 PM

I'm currently using the trial of Xara 6 and loving it so far. I have two questions:

1. When I export to a JPG or PNG, I would like it to only export what is on the canvas, not any parts of images hanging off the canvas. What's the best way to do this?

2. I notice when I set the image size at the beginning and then later finish it, it's no longer the size I initially set it as. This could be due to the question above. If not, please let me know what to do to keep the canvas size as set.

Thank you,

Liora

**handrawn** · 24 October 2010, 10:07 PM

Hi - welcome to TG

there is no canvas in xara designer

there is a page area - but it is important to realise that in a vector application such as designer, objects are quite seperate from this, they all exist independently

so setting the page area has no effect on how big your object[s] will be

when you export your JPG or PNG - if you click on the 'Bitmap Size' tab of the dialog box, you will see three 'area to save ' options:

1 Drawing - which exports everything you have drawn [usually - it does also depend on another setting in program options for pasteboard size]
2 Selected - which exports only object[s] that is selected
3 Page - which exports what falls within the page area only

so the third option is the one you want, I think....

**gwpriester** · 25 October 2010, 01:12 AM

Welcome to TalkGraphics Liora

**Liora** · 25 October 2010, 05:17 AM

I've been using the links for Export to JPG or Export to PNG, which haven't given these options (wonder why?). I'll just use the Export link instead now. Thank you!

**gwpriester** · 25 October 2010, 06:24 PM

Liora

Are you selecting just the image you want to export? Xara exports what you have selected. If you do not select anything then Xara exports the entire page (what I think you are referring to as the canvas.

If the objects you want to export are the only objects on the page, then there is no need to select them.

But if there are other objects on the page, then they will get exported too. See the attached.

In the second image, only the three objects were selected. In the first image no objects were selected and another object in the lower right hand corner was exported as well.

**bev mcquain** · 25 October 2010, 09:17 PM

I, too have never seen the export 'drawing / selection / page' options. Do they exist in the P&G Designer, or just the Pro?

**gwpriester** · 25 October 2010, 11:07 PM

The are in the Bitmap Size tabbed section.

**Odat** · 26 October 2010, 06:04 PM

If you're using the shortcuts in the menu or on the toolbar that allow you to export as PNG or as JPG directly (as opposed to using FIle->Export... and having to choose the file name and type yourself) the dialog box that's shown in the screen shots above doesn't appear for you by default, you just choose a file name and it exports. However the dialog box where you're entering the export file name does have an Options button in it that causes the full export dialog to show up, which allows for these options.

I have the Pro version but I would imagine that if you have the non-pro and have those quick export buttons your dialog has the same button in it.

Or possibly this isn't what you're talking about at all, in which case you can ignore me.

**Soquili** · 26 October 2010, 06:46 PM

Both Designer Pro 6 and Photo & Graphic Designer 6 have the same dialogs for the Export JPEG / Export PNG and the Settings dialog.

**Liora** · 26 October 2010, 10:51 PM

Odat, yes, they weren't showing by default when I used "Export PNG..." or "Export JPG...". I'm pretty sure I clicked on Settings as well (I don't have any "Options" button on exporting using "Export PNG...") and didn't get anything like the export options showing, either. Not sure what the issue was, but I've switched over to just using the "Export..." instead as habit now, and that solved everything.

Thanks!