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Topic History of: PNG / Alpha Exports?
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airy	You can export full Comics with a transparent background, either as TIFF or PDF Just set the sheet fill color to some color with full transparency Click for full size - Uploaded with plasq's Skitch It's working for both "print to pdf" and exporting to TIFF Airy
Keith	Hi Silverone, I'm a bit confused now-- you're authoring for a website and print at the same time? Maybe you could explain a little more about the workflow/ what other apps you're using? When you copy in Max OS X, you're actually copying a PDF file into the clipboard, which is nice, because it means you can copy from Comic Life Magiq and paste into Photoshop (for example) each element as vector objects. Skitch unfortunately doesn't handle PDF's for greater than screen resolution, it simply will accept them at the original size of the element. What this means is, if you're just doing something for screen resolution (like a website), then Skitch will be perfectly suitable, by using the steps I listed before. Note: you're not snapping the graphic, you're actually using copy (Command+C) in Comic Life Magiq and Paste (Command+V) into Skitch which means you don't have to recut the object, as long as you complete the rest of the steps to make sure that Skitch puts a transparent background behind your object, instead of a white one. Click for full size - Uploaded with plasq's Skitch If you're working in Print resolution, then you should be able to copy and paste your Comic Life Magiq stuff into your application, whether thats Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. We're definitely working to make this easier in future.
Silverone	Hi Guys, Yeah, I had tried Preview since they added the masking tool there but that's why I was hoping your new App would take over this easily. My big concern with copy/paste with Skitch is I'm authoring for Print at least 300 DPI in Magiq settings for export so how could copy/paste into Skitch carry over these same DPI settings and then make a Alpha layer? Let me know if this is an issue as I expect it would be with a copy/paste before export solution. Thanks!
keith	Arg - KeynoteKen you're right. Preview is not handling alpha correctly. Skitch will happily do it: 1. copy from Comic Life Magiq 2. Paste into Skitch 3. Select the custom color (the round one) 4. Set Opacity to 0% (see-through) in the color picker 5. Shift click on the custom color button Keith
KeynoteKen	Just checked. While Preview can accept the input from a copy out of Comic Life, it currently doesn't have the ability to save as a PNG (or TIFF) with an Alpha Channel when starting with a PDF (the PNG's it creates have white backgrounds unfortunately ). I think the fewest number of steps to a .PNG that hugs your image is either start with a page size that's the right size for your document OR Copy, Paste into Skitch, then make it transparent there.
keith	Hi Silverone, We'll definitely look at making that easier in future. Also you can usually simply copy and paste the object you want from Comic Life Magiq into your graphics editing /web design application of choice. For example, Preview has a 'New from Clipboard' option which will do this. Hope that helps! Keith plasq

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