Dragging masked layer to larger document has a 1 pixel leak at mask edges

Happens on Mac/PC since I can remember, wondering what others experience or do.
Paint a mask to remove background. I use a brush 100% hardness.
Drag this layer (eg: scalloped) into a larger document
You get a faint line of pixels (thin white line) around all 4 edges. Probably has to do with anti-alias and edge of document
You have then paint on mask to get rid of this, how can I avoid this happening?

Well, its normal for Photoshop and has been mentioned several times, for example:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4556367#4556367
You'll see that the 1-pixel border of the layer itself will have become slightly transparent (or more transparent if it already was semi-transparent).
I can give you an Action to make the border of a layer fully opaque if you're interested.
Even more strange, if I fill the layer mask with black by inverting it rather than filling it the problem does not happen.
I didn't realize that; I don't think I've ever used Fill to make a mask one solid shade. Thanks for pointing it out. That is extremely strange!

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Hi,
I would like to drag & drop a layer into a other document when document are viewed as tabs.
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thanks for your help.

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Here's my problem: I am a composer, I need to print my scores (document size is 9x12) but it seems that adobe only supports 8.5x11. What I'm looking to do is to save my 9x12 document as a pdf, and have it actually show up in adobe reader as a 9x12 document so that it can be accurately printed at its intended size. Every time I try to do just that, the document either rescales to accomodate to adobe, or parts of the document get cut off. That's not what I want, I want a 9x12 document. If in the unfortunate case that what I'm trying to do is impossible, please notify me of an alternate universal document reader that will do what I want.

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ok sorry but doesn't sscce say to post the whole code?the first S is Short, and yes, it needs to be all the code needed to illustrate the problem and let use reproduce it. If you were developing a new Web framework, your example might be short, but for a student game it's very long.

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I have two documents open
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My structure for the source document is
>Set 1 Layer Set
     >layer
     > Adjustment Layer
     >background
Background
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>Named Layer Set
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No error message is given. I just can't drag it into the spot I want to drag the layer set to (its not an individual layer, its a layer set)
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I've attached images as well to illustrate
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road like this one. Maybe I'm just a slow learner. One of my
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trying as much as possible to do things using Classes and good OO
design principles. Do you have any articles or books you would
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Modify layer in a document made up with model

I made a site without tables (all tag DIV), I have saved the
page in a model, I selected one layer in a model and mark the layer
(not his contained) in a modifiable area. I saved a page. After I
create a new document from model.. when I try to modify a layer
(move, resize) I can't because the code is blocked. in a livedoc I
read that is possible. My dreamweaver version is 8.02 please help
me.
I also tried whin new simple page with 3 layers (head - body
- footer)... but the problem it's the same

If you have this -
<div id="layer1">...
You will not be able to drag that layer in design view on any
child page.
Why? because the *layer* is not editable. Its contents are,
but not the
layer itself.
Nevertheless, you will still be able to edit that layer's
position in the
CSS that is applied to the page - just not by dragging it in
design view.
But - there are some flaws in your 'going in' methods
(assuming I understand
your post). Using layers the way you have is not optimal. A
page that is
build from multiple layers will surely produce unexpected
results when the
visitor resizes the text display in their browser, and
dragging things
around in Design view is just a bad practice - with tables or
with layers.
The trick is to learn enough HTML and CSS that you no longer
need to do
this.
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>I made a site without tables (all tag DIV), I have saved
the page in a
>model, I
> selected one layer in a model and mark the layer (not
his contained) in a
> modifiable area. I saved a page. After I create a new
document from
> model..
> when I try to modify a layer (move, resize) I can't
because the code is
> blocked. in a livedoc I read that is possible. My
dreamweaver version is
> 8.02
> please help me.
> I also tried whin new simple page with 3 layers (head -
body - footer)...
> but
> the problem it's the same
>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Transitional//EN"
> "
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
> <html xmlns="
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1" />
> 
> <title>sample</title>
> 
> <style type="text/css">
> 
> </style>
> 
> </head>
>
> <body>
> <div id="head"></div>
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Large document like master/PhD on Pages 09 Version 4.1 (923) (using EndNote X4 for bibliography - but EndNote is not the problem! I tried it without...) - more than a hundred pages. (now with Lion 10.7.2 it seems to be even worse than with SLep).
Content is numbered with up to four "levels" (like: 2.3.1.2 Xxxxxx). I seem to make a lot of things right because the content at the beginning of the document is correct with all the points (just the content is 4 pages long - and everything including the page-numbers is correct) -
BUT:
In the text most "sub-/headlines" or new points are correct - but some are just very wrong like:
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That is exactly why i hate Word - it just did the same crap (but Word also mixed up the footnote-numbering - in Pages 09 at least all the foodnotes are right).
Any idea? - the next thing i will try is just to copy every paragraph into a new document - but i doubt that it will help - is there anybody at apple who could help???
Greetings
simplex

I didn't answer either because I found your writing impenetrable and without the file to work with improbable we could talk you through it.
It sounds to me like you have simply skipped a sequence somewhere and it has lost track of the numbering, or you got it to restart somewhere in an attempt to 'fix' your error.
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Then put this link on the drive:
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Thanks for your response.
Apologies, I've not explained myself well here. The majority of the information within the large pdf has come from word files although not all of it. There are also visio drawings and AutoCAD drawings. Generally with the AutoCAD drawings, I receive them already pdf'd and it is I suspect these which cause the large file size (they often contain OS mapping data or ECW files). I guess this explains the main reason I used pdf in the first place, it's software that can convert many diffferent file types into the same format, like in this instance. Unfortunately I am unable to post an example as the information relates to a government agency and the content may be deemed sensitive.
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Click the "+" and create a new custom paper size. Title it "Really Big Paper" or whatever.
Make the paper size 34 wide by 56 high. (Again, portrait orientation). Click “OK”.
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You can fool around with the custom paper size and start with it shorter on width or shorter on height, but if you want to print a document that is large and is wider than it is tall, when you print it on a single page, it will always print **across the middle of a portrait oriented page** and not in landscape mode.
I can repeat this on both my HP and Canon printers. Same result. So it isn’t the print driver, unless you think HP and Canon have the same bug in their print drivers (fairly unlikely, I would guess). You can print to PDF and you get the same result, too.
Again: printing worked fine for me a few weeks (and one or two Pages updates) ago!

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Hi,
I have designed the following logo for my football team's website.
It plays fine as a flash file but when I export it as an animated GIF file, it shows the bright pink mask layer. Obviously I don't want it to. Has anybody an idea of how to rectify this problem ?
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Peter,
Success! I finally got my head round it Indeed, I can see now your point about the export method being preferable, it's also much quicker than my old "print PDF" method! Like I say, publishing isn't my area of expertise and I get comfortable and set in my ways with certain ways of doing things, especially with computers!
Bob,
Like I was saying to Peter, that makes sense now. I guess my not appreciating the process of PDF creation and thus my incorrect use of the terminology may have confused the issue. With regards the link you sent me, wow it certainly seems I'm not the only one who gets confused! Fortunately it seems my problem is now solved and I have learned to produce a better product!
Thanks again guys!
....now I wonder how I can make my dissertation interactive....

Dragging masked layer to larger document has a 1 pixel leak at mask edges

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