Exporting and Printing

Transparent Background

You can export your design as an image with a transparent background. To make it possible, the following conditions should be met:

• Your design should have a transparent background. To check this out, select the Chessboard background in the program Preferences. The chessboard will be visible through all transparent parts of your design.
• Choose a file format that supports transparency (alpha channel). These are: PDF, TIFF, PNG and GIF.
• Activate the Transparent Background option in the Export dialog. The GIF format has the Include Transparency check box for the same purpose.
• It doesn't really concern Art Text, but you should know this. Applications that will receive an image, which you exported or copied via the clipboard, should also support the alpha channel. If an image has white or black background in a third party program, try to export from Art Text using a different file format.