Re: Finished My First Xara Site - feedback please and some probllems still
Thanks, Egg, you said, "If you want shadows below your images use black rectangles below with feathering and 25% transparency. Xara stores the large image and it resizes the same image to a thumbnail size without creating a separate thumnail image. What you are encountering is by adding a shadow to the smaller versions of the photos it’s creating new thumbnail images and these thumbnails are also added to the slide photo-strip below. An alternative to using rectangles would be to apply a shadow and creating a bitmap before importing the image into the page.
Thank you, I had actually done the shadow outside of Xara, using the same background color as the page background, then flattening it and using that as the image that gets turned into a thumbnail, but that's a lot of extra work and I didn't like the way it looks blown up in the popup. I hadn't thought of creating the seperate shadows in Xara as you did. I guess those would also have to be done one at a time, or one done, then copied and pasted and resized for each thumb, and located under where it is decided the thumb will be, then soft grouped to it? Again, a lot of extra work. These are both ways of getting around the problem, the bug, but hopefully the techs at Xara can solve this problem, or prevent it from happening, or least give some warning not to use the shadow tool with popups? These are the types of bugs that can drive a user crazy.. I spent several days trying to figure out what was wrong and forum members time as well.
Your script for centering the images is way beyond me, but I appreciate it also. I'm glad you figured out what was causing the problem, I'll post it over on the Magix forum for others with your name listed and I'll send it into the techs.
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