PasteBoard Issue

**GiddyupGilbert** · 13 January 2019, 10:10 PM

Xara Pro X64: Building a WEBsite and have created a background rectangle. When I do the Pasteboard there is a white space all around and I want the art piece to butt against one another. I can't figure out what I'm not doing that causes this. I take about 20 pieces of art, soft group and make a photo bitmap of the piece and insert. I have taken the Rectangle tool, drawn very close to the edges of the art and still get a white border. Any thoughts on this appreciated. Thank you.

**gwpriester** · 14 January 2019, 01:07 AM

Is the repeating image in even pixels? i.e. does the size on the Infobar show even pixel amounts. If the size shows 350.7px x 200.4px this could be the cause.

Also the position on page needs to be in even pixel amounts.

**Acorn** · 14 January 2019, 11:12 AM

Originally Posted by GiddyupGilbert

Xara Pro X64: Building a WEBsite and have created a background rectangle. When I do the Pasteboard there is a white space all around and I want the art piece to butt against one another. I can't figure out what I'm not doing that causes this. I take about 20 pieces of art, soft group and make a photo bitmap of the piece and insert. I have taken the Rectangle tool, drawn very close to the edges of the art and still get a white border. Any thoughts on this appreciated. Thank you.

Upload the bitmap to us for a look.

Acorn

**GiddyupGilbert** · 14 January 2019, 12:25 PM

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I've also exported as a JPEG.

**Acorn** · 14 January 2019, 01:38 PM

Try as I might, I cannot force the bitmap to show up any gaps at any scale on the design page or in Preview.

What I did was take your bitmap and cropped it to the first edge that was of a flower (non-white).

Once cropped on all four sides, I took a bitmap copy of that.

I cloned and flipped horizontally, took that pair and cloned and flipped vertically.
I then butted these all together, reduced the overall scale and took a final bitmap of them, which became my Pasteboard background of Flowery.xar

Acorn

**gwpriester** · 14 January 2019, 02:13 PM

Gilbert - Do you mean you would like to reduce the amount of white around the repeating image?

If so, then go to someplace like Shutterstock.com and purchase a repeating tiling image.

**gwpriester** · 14 January 2019, 03:11 PM

This will work as a seamless repeating tile.

By the way, is this question for a website or for print?

**GiddyupGilbert** · 14 January 2019, 05:41 PM

It's for a WEBsite. Thanks.

**gwpriester** · 14 January 2019, 05:50 PM

OK I am moving the thread over to Web Design Chat

**Spitsoor** · 14 January 2019, 08:12 PM

Gilbert, you will always retain some white space, because the flowers are not covering the whole edge.
There is a workaround, but you need to be able to add flowers after you flipped all the sides.
You divide the image into four equal parts, then mirror every side on x and y axis.
You are left with the white sides in the middle, and here you paste some more flowers (or you can clone it if it's a pattern)

Then you should end up with something like this