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The purpose of this forum is to allow comments, questions and discussion with the author Gary Bouton about his book Xara Xtreme 5: The Official Guide ID75JaSsdzo Learn how to master the world's fastest drawing program! Learn the principles of vector drawing as you learn technique,...
Hi, Is there a new book in the works for Designer Pro 6 in the horizon? or just addentdums. JimM
Hello, Can anybody tell me if is possible to insert CONTACT FORMS in a page designed with MAGIX XTREME - 5 , and the way to do it? Thanks, Luis
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If you are using Xara3D6 it's fairly easy to rotate anything but when you try to put some texture to make some sense of your work it seems impossible. I have been trying a lot to do a rotating world globe like the one of simsmj only a lot simpler. When I put the texture on the sphere it always...
Hello, everyone, This is my first post in this seemingly appealing forum. It's not a great question and it probably has been asked before, but I couldn't find an answer to this neither here or anywhere on google. I want to make a custom animated logo. I have both Xara Xtreme and Xara3D6. I...
I'm considering buying, the Official Guide Book. Can anyone tell me why I might want to buy the OGB when Xaraxone has 10 years + of tutorials-for free? I'm not trying to be antagonistic, just watching my budget! :-) Cheers Knute
For those readers who felt they benefited from the section on Xara's Bitmap Tracer in the guide: About once a week I get an email from Mary Davis, who I don't believe is a real person, but "she" informs me that my Dover Sampler is ready to preview. Dover Publications' newsletter is easy to...
I recently bought "Xara Xtreme5" official guide to help me in my use and understanding of "Xara 5". The book started well but from there it has been all uphill. I tried each example in turn and apart from one or two was rarely able to complete the example. This though I realise, sometimes errors...
In The Official Guide I think I stressed the importance of beginning a new design the features text with a good collection of fonts. And I made some recommendations and offered links in the book, as well as arranging a special offer to include some of Nick Curtis’ splendid Retro typefaces for...
Hello, I am following along with the tutorial that starts on page 177, but am stuck on the part on page 178 part .8. When I use the keyboard shortcut "ctrl-3" all I get is an error message "The shape combining operation failed to create a result". I have also tried doing this using the menu...
If you like working with bitmap fills, Genetica has a scaled-down free version of their procedural seamless texture maker. The ground covering set is quite nice: Free seamless texture maker Attached is a mini-tutorial on getting your textures into /Xara and applying them in case you didn't...
Greeting I find on page 31 of the official Xara 5 guide the statement 5. "Mix up a colour". Could you please tell me how I do this or is it limited to Xara 5 Pro users. Thanks Ray
I have been looking into the colourgallery, and I seem to have noticed that I can`t rename or delete the sections (see picture) I probably am doing something wrong. And I am learning a lot from the book, very easy to learn from.
Hi Gary, I spent some time re-reading chapter 3 and practicing with both the shape editor (which the more I use it, the more I believe it is an important tool to master) and the pen tool. At this point, I am under the impression that once a person has mastered the shape editor that there is...
Hi, I have just bought Xara Xtreme, about 2 weeks back, though the CD is yet to arrive. I was thinking of buying the ebook from McGrawHill in Adobe Digital Format. Would be saving paper as also it is easy to continuously refer and learn while both the software and book is open on the monitor in...
We had an interesting back-and-forth today about Xara Xtreme's Color Gallery and the topic of spot color was mentioned. Here's a semi-related tip for anyone who needs faithful output to a home inkjet printer: Although many of the affordable inkjets such as Canon use CMY and K inks and some...
Hi Gary, Me again! :) This time picking on the lawn chair. I used the settings indicated in the book but, the result I get isn't quite close enough to what you got. I should mention that the differences don't really matter much (artistically that is) but, I'd still like to know how you got...
Just in case this would helpful to someone, I attached my "rendition" of Gary's suggested improvements to the Globe Partners logo. Note that I used Arial as the font because I don't know which font is used in the book image (therefore that is a discrepancy). Also, my globe was traced with...
Hi Gary, It's me again! :D Point 6 says "Use a value of about 434 for accuracy. ..." I swear, I pulled and pulled on that slider as hard as I could but couldn't go past 100 no matter what :) Fortunately, you said "about" which translated to 44 as far as I'm concerned ;) On a different...
Hi, In a previous thread I mentioned getting unwanted lines on the bottom and left hand side where the Bang Shang A Lang GIF plays (index.html page). I thought this was caused by a bug in the version of Xtreme I am using (which _may_ still be the case) but, I've just noticed that those...
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