I do have the Motherpeace deck, but I chose to go to the website and upload from there- my deck is faded and old (since 1990!) and I am missing the 4 of swords. They are saved as gifs. In the program, it seems transparent, no colored box around the cards when I deal and shuffle spreads.
However, when I made a screen capture, there was an white box around the cards and I was wondering how to make it transparent for the screen capture like it is when I open the program.
I've just figured out how to use the RTF, minimally today... Any advice is appreciated...
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Golden Hoops
Screen capture w circular deck- how do get rid of square box around cards?
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Screen capture w/ circular deck- how do get rid of square box around cards?
Curious behaviour the one you report... I've conducted some testing to reproduce your problem using my own Fantasy Mandala Tarot (a round one), and the screen capture goes as intended, the only square is the one for the main deck, not for the dealt cards. The FMT is PNG-based, not GIF, so I'm suspecting this has something to do with the GIF format your deck is using. Just for double checking, repeated the test with the Glamour Deck (made with GIfs), and there's no coloured boxes like the ones you mention, just some flaws caused by the sheer file format. Would you mind to make the test using one of the mentioned decks? If they look OK, the problem is in your GIF deck for sure: if so, please contact me for sending it and I'll try to adapt the transparency for a better OT result. Best.
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Screen capture w/ circular deck- how do get rid of square box around cards?
Hi Golden Hoops, you talking about when you capture the cards in the RTF yes?
If that is the case if you do it that way the cards do have a box however you can also put the cards into the RTF one at a time without the box. I'm not sure if it works with round decks but try it out.
When you click on the RTF uncheck Include Images. Finish the reading and keep the RTF window open. Go back to the actual spread as drawn by the program. Suppress popups. Click on the card and Alt-Print Screen. Click back into the RTF where you want the card and Ctrl-V that should work for the gif's as well. Sorry I can't help with the 4 of Swords don't have the deck.
Shari
If that is the case if you do it that way the cards do have a box however you can also put the cards into the RTF one at a time without the box. I'm not sure if it works with round decks but try it out.
When you click on the RTF uncheck Include Images. Finish the reading and keep the RTF window open. Go back to the actual spread as drawn by the program. Suppress popups. Click on the card and Alt-Print Screen. Click back into the RTF where you want the card and Ctrl-V that should work for the gif's as well. Sorry I can't help with the 4 of Swords don't have the deck.
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Screen capture w/ circular deck- how do get rid of square box around cards?
Hi Everyone,
When a card is registered as being non-rectangular the program looks for a transparency colour. It does that by taking the colour of the very top left pixel (or more accurately the pixel labelled zero). That pixel could be green, red, blue, yellow or any other colour depending on the mad ravings of whoever designed the deck.
When the card is diplayed on screen during normal program usage, any colours that match the zero index colour are see-through, so you see what is behind them.
This was never programmed to work when you do a print screen operation. The deck is only non-rectangular during normal useage of the program. When a screen print is taken then the cat is out of the bag and the user can see that the so-called non-rectangular deck is really rectangular after all. You could still disguise this because in preview the program tries to match the background colour to the one specified for the deck. If the cards in the screen capture don't overlap each other's larger boundaries you could still get away with it.
Cheers
Richard
When a card is registered as being non-rectangular the program looks for a transparency colour. It does that by taking the colour of the very top left pixel (or more accurately the pixel labelled zero). That pixel could be green, red, blue, yellow or any other colour depending on the mad ravings of whoever designed the deck.
When the card is diplayed on screen during normal program usage, any colours that match the zero index colour are see-through, so you see what is behind them.
This was never programmed to work when you do a print screen operation. The deck is only non-rectangular during normal useage of the program. When a screen print is taken then the cat is out of the bag and the user can see that the so-called non-rectangular deck is really rectangular after all. You could still disguise this because in preview the program tries to match the background colour to the one specified for the deck. If the cards in the screen capture don't overlap each other's larger boundaries you could still get away with it.
Cheers
Richard