Text boxes with transparent shadow edges

[Newbietoo]

Me Again!...

I'm now starting to do slicing in anger (literally as it turns out) and have discovered that the sizes of the exported images are different to the Guide boxes with the net result the edges don't align (see attached image).

Paul (hope you're still there) I note that the same thing happens with your "slicetest" For example, the bottom right hand GIF is sized at 22.4px X 21.1px in Xara, but the exported GIF is 24 X23

In other threads I note a general level of dissatisfaction with Xara's slicing functionality. It's appallingly documented in the Help and seems to have a whole host of traps lurking for the unaware. Is this as good as it gets i.e. should I use some other package; or am I still doing something wrong?

Patrick