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Re: FH9 Background layer not gray

Posted: 07-11-2003, 05:27 PM
Bill
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Here's one thing you might check: The background layer won't grey out is if
it is above the horizontal seperator bar in the layers panel. Only layers
below the bar are greyed out.

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mbaumann webforumsuser@macromedia.com
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Re: FH9 Background layer not gray
Posted: 07-11-2003, 05:48 PM
Thanks for the quick reply, but nothing (and by nothing I mean no layers) below the line turns gray.
Another idea?

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Re: FH9 Background layer not gray
Posted: 07-11-2003, 05:53 PM
I'm not very familliar with NT or 2K, but I'm guessing it may be a display
driver issue. You might check that by launching Freehand under a Windows
default driver and see if the condition persists.

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Re: FH9 Background layer not gray
Posted: 07-11-2003, 05:55 PM
mbaumann wrote:
> ... now my background layer doesn?t
> gray out the objects like it used to (and as the support manual describes).
> Can anyone tell me if there is a toggle deep in the tree somewhere that
> corrects this?
Ye it's deep in the tree and in a place you wouldn't think to look. If you
have at some point exported a raster image with with 'Alpha Includes
Background', FH disabled they graying of your background layers to create
the alpha masks and forgets to reset it back.

Ian Kelleigh describes it in detail here and tells you how to restore your
background to normal grayness:

http://www.FreeHandSource.com/_frame...roubleshooting
_024.html

Incredibly, this is still happening in FHMX! Hey Macromedia, isn't it about
time to fix this?

Judy Arndt

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Re: FH9 Background layer not gray
Posted: 07-14-2003, 11:45 AM
Changing the bitmap export defaults did the trick (explained in www.freehandsource.com).
Thanks to everyone who replied.

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