How do you trim the page down to the contents in Photo & Graphic Designer?

[Hamslay]

do you mean save. as in save as a xar/web file, or export to another file type

in xara objects are independent of the page

EDIT - ok I think acorn may have got there

Let's say I want a circle with a 100px diameter. I create an A4 page and draw my circle. I want to then trim the page down to 100x100 so I export a 100x100 GIF and not an A4 size GIF with a tiny circle on it.

[handrawn]

make sure you have selected what you want to export before you export and then in the export dialog on the bitmap size tab, make sure 'selection' option is selected - if you do not select first it may default to the whole page

[Hamslay]

make sure you have selected what you want to export before you export and then in the export dialog on the bitmap size tab, make sure 'selection' option is selected - if you do not select first it may default to the whole page

OK, so I just exported without selecting anything and it automatically trimmed the page down to the circle, which is great. Fireworks would have exported the whole blank page unless the canvas was trimmed. However, I now wonder how I would export the whole page...

[handrawn]

try the other two bitmap size tab options

[Hamslay]

try the other two bitmap size tab options

Blimey, I hadn't even stumbled across the Settings... button on the Export dialog box! Xara seems incredibly powerful but hard to use. Kind of like the Linux command line of graphics applications.

[handrawn]

PS xara is not fireworks... I vaguely remember that program - didn't it have layered PNGs

[Hamslay]

PS xara is not fireworks... I vaguely remember that program - didn't it have layered PNGs

That's right. Fireworks was superb. I've used it daily for years but a new PC last week means no more Fireworks as it's impossible to activate it now Adobe took the servers down. I am wondering now whether to also keep the old PC just for Fireworks and use remote desktop!!!

[Hamslay]

I think I was expecting to be able to reduce the page/canvas size down to the objects within it. I didn't realise that an export would only export the selected objects no matter the blank page around them. I guess it's just a different way to do it.

Thanks guys. Much appreciated.

[handrawn]

you are welcome

xara is a vector program; objects are all seperate in the workspace, independent of the page

[Acorn]

Let's say I want a circle with a 100px diameter. I create an A4 page and draw my circle. I want to then trim the page down to 100x100 so I export a 100x100 GIF and not an A4 size GIF with a tiny circle on it.

Tim, your first Post seemed to indicate you wanted to save the design page as small as possible.

Try File > Export and select GIF. A 100px circle will export as a 100 px GIF with 96 DPI.

Usually, if you are just exporting shapes then select the shape then File > Export PNG. this is better thank GIF.
Add a filename but then click the Settings button.
In the Bitmap Size tab, chosen your H & W there or change the DPI.

Acorn