This may sound like a stupid question, but how do you remove the white background from text when using CorelDraw XP.

My logo is simple text.  I then use the "publish to the web" feature and save it as a gif.  When it saves, the text is in a white rectangle.  I just want the text showing, not the white background.

I looked and "no background" is marked on the page background area.

I know I must be missing something, this can't be that hard.  Please help...

Thanks for the suggestion.  I looked but I could not find anything like that. 

I use CorelDraw X3 (not XP) however I'm sure they are the same  (oh, you probably meant on an XP OS, lol )

There are two ways to make a transparent gif in CorelDraw, however I'll give you instructions for one (since you are using the "Publish to the Web" method).

1) In the menu under "File", select "Publish to the Web"
2) Select "Web Image Optimizer" , then select the "gif"
3) Click the "Advanced" button
4) Click "OK"
5) The "GIF Export" window will appear
6) Select "Image Color"
7) Click on the eye dropper tool button and select the background you want to make transparent on the "Original" image side of the dual window
8 ) Click "OK", "OK" then "Save"

This will then turn the image's background color you selected transparent on the output gif (it will show some black squares during the conversion, but that's because in your configs the default is a checkered background to display transparency).

I would recommend that before you convert your image to a gif, you first use a background color similar to the webpage color you are going to lay the image on, so that when you turn it to a transparent gif, there won't be any white fringing around it.

You basically just create a rectangle and set it behind your graphic/logo, then fill it with the color of your webpage's background color (make sure to remove the "outline" color if you have your CorelDraw configs to have an outline created when drawing a rectangle). Then when you follow the steps I gave you above and you select the background color to turn transparent, you will have a smooth transition from the logo to the webpage background (no fringing) 

Hi there,

There may be one thing to consider when doing this and I have only found this by experience... it may also have been the way that I did it.

I found that if the background color you chose was white it rendered differently between IE and firefox. In firefox it rendered ok but it seemed to me that IE renders white as 'off white' and you can sometimes see the box around your image.

As I said, it may have only been peculiar to me but it's worth checking in both browsers to make sure. (its good practice to anyway) 

Sodafox

Oh my, that's a LOT of work 

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The thing I also noticed about creating gifs/jpgs via CorelDraw ... is that after the conversion takes place, it leaves a very thin translucent-whitish-like border on the left side and bottom edge of the image box. This thin border isn't as noticeable on lighter backgrounds, but it is on darker ones, so what I have to do is after I do the conversion, I open the file up in PhotoPaint and crop the outer-most edges of the gif/jpg to get rid of it.

Anyway, I forgot to mention that in my previous post, so thought I'd better do so