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Well since I got here first I will have the liberty of posting this thread, as I think it will benefit us all. If you find any bugs please post here.
First bug (I'm not sure this is a bug but still): When working on multipages if I create a shape that is outside of the page it will not be visible on the other page, and if I drag it down it will disappear from the previous page as if cut down. See screen shots.
Another thing:
Maybe it was done on purpose, but: The line width are translated to the measurement I am currently working in: If I work in pixels the line width will be given 1.33, 0.67 instead of 1 and 2, which is not only confusing but also irretating.
I'm pretty sure this is designed to be that way. Otherwise you wouldn't know what was supposed to be on what page.Quote:
Originally Posted by Availor
Avalior,
From Charles list of other improvements:
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• The line width shows widths in pixels if your page units are pixels (the list of widths will be improved before the final release)
Those using hardware DEP still need to add Xtreme Pro and "XPE Pro" to their list of exceptions in order to be able to load the program... I think that Xara X was OK, but X¹ and Xtreme had the same issue.
I originally posted this in August 2004 at http://www.talkgraphics.com/showpost...4&postcount=10 ... the list of programs in there is quite an exclusive one with only Skype having invited itself to the private Xara party
Theres are KB articles regarding harware that supports DEP
http://support.xara.com/index.php?_m...articleid=2513
and
http://support.xara.com/index.php?_m...articleid=2299
You can apply a mold to a text box. It does work, but the UI is kinda funky since you will be typing invisible text into a square box, but when the box loses focus, the text will (usually, but not always) appear in the mold-ed text. If the added text doesn't appear inside the mold, removing the mold makes it appear once more.
Indeed, and as soon as each piece of Xara software is added to the exception list, it all works. Xara's is the only software I've seen which requires it though.Quote:
Originally Posted by bb2
In the print world you wouldn't be able to do something spanning two separate pages vertically, nor can you in Xtreme. Each spread is distinct, so you can't have objects overlapping both.Quote:
Originally Posted by Availor
Of course you can overlap horizontally, for example two pages in a spread.
So far, fantastic upgrade.. but... default template is ignored on startup. I change mine to US letter with rulers and object attributes set a certain way, (saved as default) but each time I restart it defaults back to 800x600, no rulers, etc. I have to select new template to get what I saved as default.
I'm sure this will be fixed.
Bah!
I cant seem to be able to change line width numerically in the beta.
Bah!
Back to Xtreme
Hmm on further experimentation it does work but only if you specify the units. If you don't it assumes 'points' and then translates it into pixels (my page units)
Bit of a backward step in the workflow that one. 5 pts (6.67pix) knocked off the score from this judge.
OK, for me..Quote:
Originally Posted by Squeaky
Pauland -
I edited my post with more info.
That is really annoying.Quote:
Originally Posted by Availor
It is also time consuming ...
Yep seems line width control has a number of rather too-obvious bugs. Will be fixed.
Not a bug, more an omission perhaps. The new text tool is a fantastic improvement but could there not be the ability to have leaders for set tab positions so as to link items to prices for instance in a menu, (which I do a fair number of)
Just a simple dotted line..................please.
Derek
Please can we not have intelligent wrapping for objects in front of text? Surely this is a must for page layout???
I'm sure other people will ask for this. In the meantime, you can use guides and then delete them.Quote:
Originally Posted by masque
What/where xara beta?
Not sure how you can use guides as they would not print, I'm a talking about printable lines connecting one line of text to a defined tab stop as per the attached fragment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xhris
Vital for lists of many types, menus in particular. This was done in Xara but of course was fiddly, should be easier now but for the lack of leaders.
Derek
I agree, unless you mean 'please can we not have it'? in which case I don't agree.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Frank
But yes vital especially for a document that is well endowed with graphics as most things produced in Xara will be.
Derek
Or at least make the text box shape editable with the Shape Editor tool so that you could manually shape/wrap text around adjacent objects...Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Frank
Ok, so lets say I want to make a shape that will be spread on both pages, Do I need to cut it myself then? Seems more natural that the shape will be seen on both pages like in Indesign (If I remember correctly).Quote:
Originally Posted by AntonyF
If you want it to appear on two separate spreads, i..e pages 3 and 4 in a book, then yes. They're separate spreads so you'd expect that. If it's across a spread, i.e across pages 2 and 3, then you just place it across the two.Quote:
Originally Posted by Availor
I'm getting some very odd behaviour with the new text areas.
Load some text into the clipboard, drag a text area with the text tool, right click and choose "paste unformatted text" and the text doesn't go into the text area.
Try it again with a new text area and the offer of "paste unformatted text" has become "paste text object".
I am also getting text areas vanishing into thin air.
If you type a first character into the text area the area border goes red and I get different, but still odd, behaviour.
Maybe I'm just not used to Xara text handling, ctrl C/V seems to be ok.
PDF outbut bugs:
I found I cannot output spot colors on separate plates (they come out as CMYK);
Black overprint in print options has no effect;
not even fill or line overprint in imagesetting menu appears to be working.
I made the tests using pdf/x exports, here is the test file used.
Anyway the pro version is impressive
ciao
Luciano
Antony...
How on earth did you manage to keep quiet when you knew that some of the things people were bitching about would be fixed this soon!
You must have the patience of a saint and the discretion of a priest!
My congratulations to all at Xara for making an already great product into a truly awesome one, and especially to you for not letting this truly beautiful cat out of the bag!
But, I have to say, my prediction came true: I said I had no doubt that Gary Priester was already working on tutorials to help with the new features! :D
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Will
It does if you Ctrl+V, or select paste from the edit menu. Right-clicking must assume focus on the document where you clicked and not the actual text box.Quote:
Originally Posted by DD
That's because Xara has now already been told what the object you just pasted in actually is. This is normal behaviour.Quote:
Originally Posted by DD
What are you doing to cause this? Text columns that are empty vanish (intentionally), but text boxes don't.Quote:
Originally Posted by DD
I assume it goes red to tell you theres text in there (as opposed to text that's white and thus invisible).Quote:
Originally Posted by DD
1) Installer does not handle big fonts on computer well. See screengrab.
2) Weird installer issue, only minor inconvenience. It downloaded GDI+ (although I am certain I already have it somewhere), and I think the GDI+ installer came up saying it needed to restart computer. I closed a bunch of things, and then hit 'Restart now'. Then the Xara installer came up and said 'Finished', which I pressed to close out the installer. At that point, some of my other apps had closed due to the GDI+ installer, and I could tell this because several programs in the system tray had disappeared. But then my machine quit the shutdown cycle, and I had to manually reboot it.
3) The levels editor in Xara Picture Editor does not immediately show the previous levels, although it displays the bitmap using them. Go into a bitmap, edit the RGB levels, save, and exit XPE. Reopen XPE, choose 'levels' again, and the default '100%' levels (or whatever) show as the settings. Switching to 'Red' and then back to 'Joined RGB' fixes this.
4) I'm unsure whether this is a bug, or intended, as I don't understand the levels tools thoroughly. If you enter the XPE level editor, and then switch to Red, Green, or Blue, and then move any sliders, the green level line moves, and then reverts back to apparently showing the 'Joined RGB' levels??? Shouldn't it display the color's new levels?
Pretty cool overall. Great job! Congratulations, Charles & team!
David
Anyone but me having problems getting the origin set to the upper left with Y increasing in the downwards direction?
All I did was go into the options and change the option for Y to increase downwards. However, the rulers still show that the upper left corner is 0, 600.
If I then create an object, the Y co-ordinate is a negative number. So I change the location manually, and the rectangle jumps downwards off the page.
From the looks of it, it's treating the upper left corner of the object as the origin, but the global page co-ordinates are still negative.
Incidentally, if I close Xara and then open it again, the Grid options return to Y going in the upward direction.
Odat I set the Options then drag the origin to the upper left of the page.
Ahh thank you, that works!
My bad. I figured that since I was telling it the co-ordinates should increase the other way, it would automatically assume that 0 was at the top and not the bottom. :o
Although strangely that option (and the grid origin) does always reset itself whenever I open a new drawing. However as someone has already pointed out, the default template seems to be currently ignored, so the two issues are probably related.
I've noticed it doesn't load my default template I saved earlier this evening.
Another thing, after making the changes for the Origin and Y increasing going down. If you open the Options it will show the old X=0 Y=600 although the coordinates will report correctly in the X and Y location boxes as long as your are working on the same drawing.
Hey Norman look HEREQuote:
Originally Posted by parahandy
Copying Shadows is pretty funcky. Try coping a shadow applied to a photo to another object
I thought this was part of the new text tools?
If so, how are they applied and edited? Nothing the Help's search listed for bullets.
I'm working on a two sided A5 flyer - so I've created 2 A5 pages. I had expected that any vertical guidelines I created on the first page would continue down to the second - but they don't.
I've also had a problem with guidelines not appearing when I place them - until I scroll up or down.
ta very much Availor.Quote:
Originally Posted by Availor
And you have no idea how much I personally nagged him about that :D (asked if new things are comming)Quote:
Originally Posted by WolfMoonHP
I had my first crash of Xara Xtreme Pro.
I created 5 text areas as columns and put some "Lorem Ipsum" text to work with as I learn how to postion and resize the text areas.
I was attempting to make all the columns the same width by using the Selector Tool and entering the value into the width of selection text field on the Toolbar. I misstyped and enterd 10 in place of the 130 I intended to enter. The cursor became and hourglass shape and after about 5 minutes the program closed itself.