PC - Importing a Bitmap

[Henners1]

When importing a Bitmap into vectorworks using my PC, all the lines/images appear to be surrounded by a white border (even though the lines/images are black). This becomes very inconvenient when working on the white sheet as I can barely see the image. When zooming into the image (as close to line as possible), the white seems to disappear and when printing it also does not appear.

Is this a problem with the Graphics card on my PC, or the way I am bringing in the Bitmap image?

Thanks in advance!

[Miguel Barrera]

Try importing with a different format like jpg, png or even pdf and see if it makes a difference.

[johnharley]

I have also noticed this problem. I recently upgraded my motherboard and OS. I installed Windows 7 64bit, I own v2008 and v2010. I had the same "halo" effect in both when bringing in a TIF file. The image is black and white, I set the background to "none". This previously made the background transparent with crisp black lines. Now there are white pixels surrounding the black pixels. I also recently downloaded v2012 to demo, same thing. This is a real problem for us. I have an Nvidia Quatro 600 with 1GB of RAM, I have 8 GIGs of RAM in the machine.

A couple of thoughts were possibly the video card or maybe a Quicktime issue. Any help would be appreciated.