hey anyone know how to export vectors for the web really nicley so you get sharp crisp lines? i'm laying out sites in x4 and am just finding the vector to web world isnt lookin so hot but i dont want to build sites with photoshop or photopaint.. any times out there!!!!
Jeremie said: i'm laying out sites in x4 and am just finding the vector to web world isnt lookin so hot but i dont want to build sites with photoshop or photopaint.. any times out there!!!!
I export direct to SWF and also GIF and JPG from DRAW without problems. I don't use the web image optimizer at all. I just select my elements and press CTRL+E, choose the format and the parameters. the parameters are what usually trips people up. They all have a purpose...
DPI means nothing for web use, so don't touch that value in the export dialog. Pixel dimensions are what matters. For ex:
I create some stuff in Draw. I know I want it to be 650 PX tall. so I choose that in export dialog, and get something 650 tall! :-)
What are some specific problems you have?
Thanks for the reply Jeff! we'll i'v been using corel for about 11 years now but ya new to doing websites and i duno if you've heard of Advanced Artist but i did all their training and found lots of cool tips and such in their and found there web training for corel to be good but ya I have 2 sites i'm done up so far and i'm just about done another one in corel but i don't want to start exporting it till i know how to export it well. my current 2 sites are www.iconiumgraphics.com and www.iamthirsty.ca and if you go to those sites you might see what i'm talking about with what looks to be low res pixles... maybe it's just me ... but sites built with photoshop have the lines sooooo crisp and i know its because its a pixle based program and corel and illustrator are vector but i'm just trying to get picky i guess and see how sharp i can make the conversion from vector to pixle the best.
interesting. i didnt know about the "doctype"setting. i built it all in corel then brought it into dreamweaver after slicing it in photopaint. the flash window is just a bix i inserted. also for some reason if i open my site in firefox theres a break in the page right under the flash window.. any idea why?
Cheers Bro
Hunter said:I would not use pixels to size your text - you have no way of knowing what the end user's screen resolution is set to... 12px text will look big on an 800x600 screen, not too bad on 1024x768... on higher resolution monitors, that text will look tiny. You would be better advised to use ems or % to define your text size. That way the text size is relative to the screen resolution.
So both, px and em, are relative to screen resolution, aren't they?
Hunter said:Text sized in EMS or Percentages on a web page will look relatively the same in height regardless of what the screen size or resolution is set to.
Both px and em (or %), are relative to Screen Resolution (1024x800 for example; not the Display DPI Setting).Both on 800x600 will look bigger than on 1024x800.
But ems start fom the browser default (or the declared font-size of the parent) which is relative to Screen Resolution.
Hunter said:If the text is sized in pixels some of these browsers will ignore any zooming/enlarging commands as you've over-ridden the variable sizing of ems/%s with a fixed-size in pixels.
Good point.
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