Fantastic tip !!!
kindly,
ivan
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Fantastic tip !!!
kindly,
ivan
My mini-tutorials
botarosa
Tip of the Year Award for sure. Bravo!
People, I didn't dig in Xara with debugger. Yet.
For those who wants to know '...how did I knew these things...'
I will tell.
Working with XARA X for 2 years I get strange experience.
When I wanted some feature to be implemented in future release
it very often appeared that this feature already IS implemented.
So, someday I decided to read XARA help carefully.
In this way I discovered few handy things. For example:
-- Ctrl+W in Text Tool makes letter UPPER/LOWERCASE.
-- Shift+Arrows, Alt+Arrows moves objects on different distances.
-- 1, 2, 3, 4 show/hide handles of objects.
-- TAB key pressed in fills and gradients makes them interactive.
-- Select fragment of text and press <Ctrl>+<+> or <Ctrl>+<->
(on alphanumeric keyboard). Spacing will change. (Very handy)
-- In Shape Editor press C (Make curve), (L) Make line, (S) Smooth join,
(Z) Cusp join, (B) Break at point (there is no last shortcut on buttons hint)
-- Bevel can be created by curve.
We all knew that in FreeHand tool is Smoothing parameter. We can draw
a curve with FreeHand tool and change smoothing with it. But how can we
simplify curve exported or drawed by other tools? It could be useful
to have such tool. I assumed that this feature is already realized, look
more carefully and... found it as last trackbar in Shape Editor tool.
Similar story was with joining of two lines. Shame to me!!!
For 2 years I used perverted ways to join two curves.
I assumed again that this feature is already realized, look
more carefully and... it is described in help.
-- "...To join lines
Select two lines.
Use Selector Tool.
Drag the end point handle of one line over the end handle of the other line -
the mouse pointer shows a '+' when the two handles are over each other.
Release the mouse button and the lines will be joined."
Sometimes I press all keys on keyboard (one by one) and look what happens.
In this way I found that UNDO/REDO can be executed by pressing '<' and '>'
keys.
XaraXone, TG forum and xarians tutorials and tips are also very handy.
-- Press Ctr, Alt, Shift keys and mouse click in 'Object Alignment' window
against selecting items from comboboxes.
Again, when focus is in combobox, press A, D, N keys.
And so on, so on...
The conclusion is: RTFM http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
And send greetings to Charles for their great work. Not to me http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
Regards, Dmitry. Sorry for terrible english.
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More good tips.
Here is one I accidentally found the other day, if you hit the "insert" key the paste dilog box come up.
All these great tips guys and dolls!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
I found another one that I don't think very many folks know about. Or maybe I'm the only one that's not aware, who knows!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif
Select an object, left click and hold down and then right click and you have a duplicate made. Nice for quick, on the fly dups. To position the dup elsewhere besides on top of the original.... left click-grab the object and drag it to the new position and then right click and instead of the original being moved there the dup is placed there instead. NEATO! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
Serif's DrawPlus 7 has a really cool wizard called the Replication Wizard located under the Tools drop down menu. Select your object, invoke the wizard. First dialog asks you if you want the program to position the objects or for you to choose from a layout grid. If you choose the layout grid then the next dialog gives you Columns and Rows and then a result in objects (so 3 Columns and 3 Rows will result in 8 new objects). The next dialog is the spacing (X and Y). Then the last dialog asks you if you want the Wizard to remember the settings and then to hit the finish button gives you a perfectly spaced layout of the objects. Works great for creating grafts and what not.
Kinda sorta on my XaraX wishlist but it's not the end of the world if it's not implemented any time soon!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
Richard http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif
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[This message was edited by RAMWolff on March 14, 2004 at 11:08.]
Very COOL thread people http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/cool.gif
Here's what I found:
TAB+arrow = moves selected object 1 pixel
ALT+arrow = moves selected object 2 pixels
CTL+arrow = moves selected object 5 pixels
SFT+arrow = moves selected object 10 pixels
-Ed.
Here's something I learned this morning. You can click the scroll wheel of a mouse anywhere on a page and the page will be centered to wherever you clicked. If you hold down the scroll wheel, you can then drag the page anywhere you'd like on the screen. The attached screenshot is intended to show the first tip where I clicked on the center of the star.
.joroho.
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Well don't I feel really stupid right now.
Here I was thinking that I had uncovered some wonderful tip and over in the Xara Xone: Tip of the Week 8 "Charles Moir's Top Ten Power Tips" it was the first thing on the list!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif ACK!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/eek.gif
Although the 3rd one down does not work all that well, at least for me.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Copy and Paste styles:
You can quickly copy the style of any shape (e.g. the color, line or brush style, fill, transparency etc) to any other shape. Simply select and copy the original shape (Ctrl-C) and then Paste Attributes, key short-cut Ctrl-Shift-A (remember A for Attributes).
This even works across documents, so you could have one document with a library of commonly used styles and then easily paste these onto any other shape.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Now what my experiences are is that most of the time it works but if you have too many styles applied then some of them transfer and others don't!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/frown.gif
An example. I just created 2 simple rectangles, 4 color fill, inner bevel, fractal cloud transparency and a drop shadow. I copied the box and then pasted attributes into the second box. All I got was the fractal transparency!! The rest was ignored! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/frown.gif I tried the keyboard short cut and same thing, no difference! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/frown.gif So this is either a bug or it's a bug!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
Richard http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif
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Hi Richard,
Actually, Charles's tip works exactly as described. It copies the attributes of color, brush, fill, and transparency. Charles didn't say anything regarding a dropshadow or bevel ... and for good reason ... it doesn't copy those attributes http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif
The moral of the story is copy your attributes before applying a dropshow or bevel.
-Ed.
Like I said the copy/paste attributes does not work as they should. So the shadow and bevel don't copy/paste but the others don't copy sometimes either. The function is not perfect and it's really no big deal as I have the registry set up to paste attribs automatically to new shapes anyway! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
Maybe in the new and improved XaraX this function will be improved to include ALL effects/attribs and fix the bug that sometimes prevents ALL the copyable attribs to be pasted as written.
Thanks for the info Ed!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
Richard http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif
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[This message was edited by RAMWolff on March 14, 2004 at 22:35.]