I’ve just downloaded the release version of FW5 pro and have immediately run in to a problem that wasn’t there in preview 3 (or in FW Pro 4). I opened my existing site created in FW4, created a new site folder and previewed the unedited site in Safari.
The very first page looks terrible!!
I’ve got a slide show on my home page with target show/hide layers controlled from a sequence timer. Each of my slideshow images has an outer glow effect applied.
The outer glow no longer displays correctly. There is a solid background colour (apparently random) behind the glow.
I tried doing a similar thing in a new site with different graphics rather than opening a v4 site but the same display problem is apparent when starting from scratch.
I was hoping to improve the slide show by adding the new fade feature, but I really want to keep the outer glow but it seems broken to me. Re-creating the slide show in v4 in exactly the same way from scratch works fine (but with no fade, obviously).
As I said before, this worked perfectly in FW5 preview 3.
I’m going to have to stick with v4 for a while longer. Grrr!
Could you send your file in to us please. The address to use is
support @ softpress.com
Cheers,
Joe
On 27 Mar 2008, at 15:02, JohnC wrote:
I’ve just downloaded the release version of FW5 pro and have
immediately run in to a problem that wasn’t there in preview 3 (or
in FW Pro 4). I opened my existing site created in FW4, created a
new site folder and previewed the unedited site in Safari.
The very first page looks terrible!!
I’ve got a slide show on my home page with target show/hide layers
controlled from a sequence timer. Each of my slideshow images has an
outer glow effect applied.
The outer glow no longer displays correctly. There is a solid
background colour (apparently random) behind the glow.
I tried doing a similar thing in a new site with different graphics
rather than opening a v4 site but the same display problem is
apparent when starting from scratch.
I was hoping to improve the slide show by adding the new fade
feature, but I really want to keep the outer glow but it seems
broken to me. Re-creating the slide show in v4 in exactly the same
way from scratch works fine (but with no fade, obviously).
As I said before, this worked perfectly in FW5 preview 3.
I’m going to have to stick with v4 for a while longer. Grrr!
Thanks for sending the file through. To get this to work properly you
will need to set the items to be PNGs with Millions of colors. You can
do this in the Inspector palette with each image selected.
I hope this helps.
Joe
On 27 Mar 2008, at 15:06, Joe Billings wrote:
Hi John,
Could you send your file in to us please. The address to use is
support @ softpress.com
Cheers,
Joe
On 27 Mar 2008, at 15:02, JohnC wrote:
I’ve just downloaded the release version of FW5 pro and have
immediately run in to a problem that wasn’t there in preview 3 (or
in FW Pro 4). I opened my existing site created in FW4, created a
new site folder and previewed the unedited site in Safari.
The very first page looks terrible!!
I’ve got a slide show on my home page with target show/hide layers
controlled from a sequence timer. Each of my slideshow images has an
outer glow effect applied.
The outer glow no longer displays correctly. There is a solid
background colour (apparently random) behind the glow.
I tried doing a similar thing in a new site with different graphics
rather than opening a v4 site but the same display problem is
apparent when starting from scratch.
I was hoping to improve the slide show by adding the new fade
feature, but I really want to keep the outer glow but it seems
broken to me. Re-creating the slide show in v4 in exactly the same
way from scratch works fine (but with no fade, obviously).
As I said before, this worked perfectly in FW5 preview 3.
I’m going to have to stick with v4 for a while longer. Grrr!
Yes, that solves the problem (on Safari and Firefox at least). Internet Explorer obviously makes a bit of a hash of things, putting black squares in the corners where the outer glow is.
If you look at our homepage with IE, you’ll see what I mean (I couldn’t get a screenshot showing the black squares).
No big deal though, I think I can live with that! Typical IE weirdness though.
I ran into this issue as well and figured out on my own that in order for the transparencies to work properly I was going to have to set the jegs as png images. This causes the load time to increase pretty dramatically as each image file size goes up roughly four fold.
Is this a bug? Will we ever be able to apply these effects to jpegs or will we always have to uses png files?
Isn’t it a fact that JPGs cannot include transparency while PNGs can?
Not SoftPress’s fault.
Steve.
On 31/3/2008, at 9:09 AM, John Scott wrote:
I ran into this issue as well and figured out on my own that in
order for the transparencies to work properly I was going to have to
set the jegs as png images. This causes the load time to increase
pretty dramatically as each image file size goes up roughly four fold.
Is this a bug? Will we ever be able to apply these effects to jpegs
or will we always have to uses png files?
Steve Cooper, email@hidden
Mac Assist, Geelong Australia
Web: www.macassist.net.au
Sometime around 31/3/08 (at 15:37 +1100) Steve Cooper said:
Isn’t it a fact that JPGs cannot include transparency while PNGs can?
Not SoftPress’s fault.
No. But I wish that the JPEGs that Freeway generates could optionally
build in an image of the underlying page content when in a layer.
This is what happens when the graphic is unlayered, and it is done to
get around precisely this issue; that JPEGs can’t have real
transparency.
I think it is a definite weakness, and something that comes up on
this list over and over, that we have no way of achieving the same
effect with layered JPEGs, not without resorting to seriously clunky
workarounds.
I reckon I could shave off two-thirds of the data size of the home
page at http://www.panoramapostcards.co.uk if this was possible in
Freeway. As it is, each postcard thumbnail and rollover thumbnail is
actually a screengrab of the items in the Freeway layout, as making
those PNGs with 8-bit transparency would have made the total data
size balloon even more. (The text on the back of the cards, however,
is regular HTML.)
Isn’t it a fact that JPGs cannot include transparency while PNGs can?
Not SoftPress’s fault.
The strange thing is that the faded slideshow worked fine in FW5 preview 3 without having to change the images to PNGs. Something changed in the release version to break this.