I’m trying to produce some backgrounds in Illustrator as a 10px sq for tiling in FWP, they look fine until previewed or published which produces poor quality results. I’m importing them as .ai files and I’ve tried PNG’s, but PNG files which look better, produce a vertical white line between every vertically tiled column. What am I doing wrong?
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You probably have a white background on your PNG files. Does the preview in Save for Web in AI show white?
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Actually, no it doesn’t, but there is antialiasing which may be causing the white (or light grey) line. But I’m more interested as to why an imported .ai file of 10px square set as a tiled background image does not publish very well.
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A 10px square image is not a good size for tiling
How many repeats would that be on a 1024 x 1000px page?
Better with 10px x 200px for a smoother effect - of course it depends on your starting image.
Can we see what you have just now.
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I’ve used them and haven’t had a problem.
If you import as .ai, you have to make sure it’s set to PNG in the inspector. I think JPEG is the default.
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On 17 Oct 2012, at 21:42, Kryten email@hidden wrote:
But I’m more interested as to why an imported .ai file of 10px square set as a tiled background image does not publish very well.
Your best bet is to make the tiling image a web-graphic first and then import it. That way Freeway doesn’t have to guess what format you want the image to be when it’s output.
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On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Joe Billings email@hidden wrote:
Your best bet is to make the tiling image a web-graphic first and then
import it. That way Freeway doesn’t have to guess what format you want the
image to be when it’s output.
I agree. If you have Photoshop, just copy the item(s) in Illustrator,
switch to Photoshop and paste into your document. Choose Paste as Smart
Object and you will be able to resize, reposition, and otherwise style the
vector group. Then use Save for Web to fine-tune your web graphic.
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Terrific advice thanks Gents. To see what I was banging on about
http://hfdesign.net/backgroundtest.html
I wasn’t sure how FW decided in what format to publish a background, but I’ll have a crack at Joe’s/Ernie’s suggestions.
Thanks again guys.
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Quite right - Smart object / web graphic did the trick, thanks Gents. Basic stuff - sorry about that.
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Everything’s basic stuff, until it’s not. Glad it’s sorted 
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On Oct 18, 2012, at 5:00 AM, “Kryten” email@hidden wrote:
Quite right - Smart object / web graphic did the trick, thanks Gents. Basic stuff - sorry about that.
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