Corel 8 Export Curved Graphic

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Neil
Oct 23, 2006
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I created a graphic with a curved border in Corel. If I export from Corel, the graphic and the white area remaining in the rectangular border around the graphic appears in the importing application. I would like to have just the graphic’s border so I can layer this graphic on top of another one. Explanation and/or solutions appreciated.
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jenelisepasceci
Oct 24, 2006
"Neil" wrote:

I created a graphic with a curved border in Corel. If I export from Corel, the graphic and the white area remaining in the rectangular border around the graphic appears in the importing application. I would like to have just the graphic’s border so I can layer this graphic on top of another one. Explanation and/or solutions appreciated.

Did you tick "transparent background" in the export options? Together with a suitable export format (tiff, png) this should do the trick.

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Neil
Oct 24, 2006
There is no option for Transparent Background in the Export window. Reminder: I have Corel 8. Dropdown menus: Layout/Page Setup — Options/Document/Page/Background has a checkbox for Print and Export Background. I had that unchecked (before starting this thread), but the white rectangular area still appears in the importing application. There is a Transparent Background option in Convert to Bitmap. I tried that, saved under a different name and exported, but the white rectangular area still appears in the importing application. Will appreciate it if you can continue to work through this with me if you think there is a way of getting just the curved graphic to export.

Peter Wollenberg wrote:
"Neil" wrote:

I created a graphic with a curved border in Corel. If I export from Corel, the graphic and the white area remaining in the rectangular border around the graphic appears in the importing application. I would like to have just the graphic’s border so I can layer this graphic on top of another one. Explanation and/or solutions appreciated.

Did you tick "transparent background" in the export options? Together with a suitable export format (tiff, png) this should do the trick.
Peter
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Tacit
Oct 24, 2006
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"Neil" wrote:

I created a graphic with a curved border in Corel. If I export from Corel, the graphic and the white area remaining in the rectangular border around the graphic appears in the importing application.

Please provide more information. What format are you saving the image in?

If you are saving an EPS, the white border will be there when you look at the image on your screen or print to a printer such as a consumer inkjet printer, but it won’t be there when you print to a PostScript printer.

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Neil
Oct 24, 2006
So far I have tried bmp and pdf. I’m importing into PageMaker 7.0, and was assuming that since the rectangular border was there, rather than the curved border, that the printing result would be the rectangular border. I have a black and white laser printer with Postscript (HP 4ML), so I can see what the result is there. I still need to know what settings to make in Corel 8 that actually effect the border. Do you think it is:

Dropdown menus: Layout/Page Setup —
Options/Document/Page/Background has a checkbox for Print and Export Background

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the Transparent Background option in Convert to Bitmap?

The color printer is Epson 1280 (no Postscript on that). I normally use bmp for graphics as it is a lossless format. Thanks for your help. Let me know if there’s something else you want me to try.

tacit wrote:
In article ,
"Neil" wrote:

I created a graphic with a curved border in Corel. If I export from Corel, the graphic and the white area remaining in the rectangular border around the graphic appears in the importing application.

Please provide more information. What format are you saving the image in?
If you are saving an EPS, the white border will be there when you look at the image on your screen or print to a printer such as a consumer inkjet printer, but it won’t be there when you print to a PostScript printer.

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Tacit
Oct 25, 2006
In article ,
"Neil" wrote:

So far I have tried bmp and pdf. I’m importing into PageMaker 7.0, and was assuming that since the rectangular border was there, rather than the curved border, that the printing result would be the rectangular border. I have a black and white laser printer with Postscript (HP 4ML), so I can see what the result is there. I still need to know what settings to make in Corel 8 that actually effect the border. Do you think it is:

BMP does not permit transparency; there is no such thing as a transparent BMP. If you save in BMP, you will always have the opaque white border–the BMP format specification requires this.

PDF is a file format intended to contain a completed page; it is not intended as a format to be placed on a page with other elements. Some programs let you do this, with more or less the results you want, but it is not what PDF was designed or intended for.

For what you are doing, EPS is the appropriate format.

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