Add option to export without backdrop about polacode HOT 10 CLOSED

In context having a cropped screenshot will often look better because the edges of the code area are aligned with the surrounding content.

Also with Material Design / Paper using shadows on an image might give the impression of it being interactive.

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Would be great to have two modes:

• With shadow: draws a shadow (party transparent) around the code-area, because of drawing the shadow with transparency the image will look good on every background where it is displayed
• Without shadow: Sides are cropped (code area maximized), transparent background, so the corners are left out and the image works on every background

The version right now won’t look good in many places because of the opaque background

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With #8 (comment) now I only want to add an option to toggle backdrop. The backdrop will be shown in preview but the export image won't have it.

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@octref I think the best way is to export to a transparent image with shadow, just like mac does.

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One use case for no backdrop or transparent bground is for slides (powerpoint, keynote, google slides, etc)

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No backdrop or transparent backdrop looks pretty ugly to me.

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Provide example where they might be looking good.

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The point of having a transparent background is to be able to place it over any underlying color or graphics; obviously, over black or very dark colors it won't show up—but the idea here is just to have similar kinds of options as one has with carbon.now.sh: for example, you can get a transparent background with Carbon by selecting the "image" option but uploading no image;

The following was captured with the normal macOS window-screenshot functionality: the shadow is transparent, and the entire shadow is captured. This leaves you the most options, in terms of placing the image.

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@octref where are you planning to add this option? Maybe a checkbox/custom toggle component just above the "export" button?

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PLUS 1 for this feature

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@johnpapa I've done a small local fix to have transparent background, no backdrop or basically any change you like to make for the exact same reason as you bring up. See #55 (comment).

Personally I don't mind the dropshadow so much (although its opinionated), but the background color (in dark mode) and the cut off is just not great.

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