Hi;
I'm a novice, using Corel Draw 12 to create an image gradient (just a gradient colour) to then be vertically tiled (via CSS "background-repeat-y") on a web page.
I learned a basic method for this from
http://www.unleash.com/davidk/jpeg/ : in Draw, create a very short (eg, height=5px ), but web-page wide rectangle, and apply a two-colour fill gradient to it, making sure to select 'none' for 'outline'.
I was able to do all of this, but invariably found that the resulting image -- at least, when viewed in my web page -- was surrounded by a small margin or border, which then showed up between each repeat and the next. I was able to find a work-around, by using my web-designer's (FrontPage) image editor to gently crop the image -- after the crop, there were no more margins/borders.
However, I'd like to figure out why I'm getting these margins/borders in the first place. I should perhaps describe how I export the image from Draw, since that may be part of the problem: once the gradient is done, I select the object, click on Export, save as JPEG, sort type as Bitmap, check "Selected Only", Convert to Bitmap: resolution 600 dpi, color mode RGB, check Anti-aliasing, Apply ICC Profile, and Maintain original size.
Any tips would be really appreciated!
While I'm here: is there no Corel Draw 12 User Manual freely downloadable as a PDF out there??
Thanks, in advance, for any help you can give!
