change paper colour

[Sueno]

I want to produce gifs with a transparent background to place on a PowerPoint page. eg a teardrop shape onto a dark blue page. The default page colour in Xtreme is white, of course, so when exporting a gif the teardrop is anti-aliased against white, when I want blue. I'm sure I've seen somewhere a dialogue box showing how to change the paper colour. Can anyone point me to it?

Thanks.

[handrawn]

HI Sueno

two ways:

1) in the color gallery dialog box select the color you want and click the background button

2) press ctrl key and drag color from color bar onto an empty area of the pasteboard

[Sueno]

Hi Steve,

Brilliant! and so easy!
It should heave been an obvious experiment to try but there you are!
After twenty minutes with the Help facility, you provide the answer in minutes.

Thanks a lot, I'll make a note for reference.

Cheers,

Bill

[amoore]

My PowerPoints rarely have solid backgrounds. To anti-alias to a gradient or multi-colored background, you can make a screen capture of the background at full size (7.5in x 10in?) and put it on a locked layer under the object to be exported. You'll need to position the object over the background just where it will be in PowerPoint.

Now export as a transparent gif or png. In some cases, to get really clean images in PowerPoint, I've had to use non-transparent gifs/pngs that pick up the background from the locked layer.