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Wow what kind of resolution and screen setup are you running here?!

My two 24" FullHD monitors have nothing on whatever you're doing - I'm impressed!

Exactly as Handrawn suggests, and then you probably also want to right-click the "Lock aspect ratio" padlock and untick "Smart Transform" too

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There was an Xtreme 2 in March 2006 too. I used to keep a list of the loading tile screenshots - and it was on that list - but last time I linked to it here, you called me a spammer.

You can use the Windows "Snipping Tool" to take a partial screenshot - WIN+SHIFT+S opens it up and you can draw over the screen to choose which part to take a "snip" of.

For years after Xara...

Yep, it has simmered and wound me up for decades!

I've no idea how long Windows Updates takes, it runs automagically "out of hours" - I only know it ran overnight because once every month or two, when I unlock my PC it takes a few seconds before all...

In a since-closed thread a couple of months ago, I complained...



Acorn replied thus...

I've just installed the 4 July 2024 update (which, separate whinge: Xara displays as "Jul 4 2024"......

It is a bold step that takes both balls and deep pockets. All but strangling your company's cash flow for six months is not something that many could do!

They've obviously got both thanks to...

As has happened previously, if I connect to a US VPN and restart Xara Designer Pro, the Elements window will open and function.

When I click Insert > From Elements on either of my two PCs today, I get just an empty window

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I'm using Designer Pro+ from 24 May and I'm in the UK. Does it work for anyone else in the...

I realise that, but without the energy and excitement of 20 years ago.

A keyboard shortcut to the colour dropper, new rounded corner rectangle tool, and another bunch of web templates isn't...

Neither of those two things look particularly likely in the immediate future, it's just another one of Affinity's discount promotions - like Xara used to have most bank holidays when they used to...

Yes, it was 40% off when v2 launched, so at 50% off it's even cheaper now (not to mention the unusually high recent inflation that means a stack of coins today typically buys much less than the same...

For anyone who has considered the Affinity software packages from Serif - there's never been a cheaper time to give it a go.

They are running a 50% discount "flash sale" at the moment. It was...

I'd love to be able to opt-out of Xara Designer Pro+ updates when they're not really updates and only affect the clipart gallery.

Updates to Microsoft [Office] 365 run automagically in the...

The defaults are saved in the .xar document which is used as your new blank document

With my version of Xara Designer Pro+, the current subscription version, those templates are stored in:...

I guessed as much...


So we have our answer...


Affinity Photo can licence it in software that costs peanuts for a perpetual licence, but Xara has made the choice not to, even in the...

Still a PITA that iPhones take photos in HEIC format, and Xara can't import them without either the iPhone or Affinity Photo processing them first. It feels like having to partially chew food for...

Still no HEIC import

Has anyone ever encountered an AVIF file? We can now import those, but I've never seen one or heard of the format. I think it was added because it's royalty-free, rather...

Welcome to TalkGraphics!

You presumably followed the forum and its predecessors over at least some of the last 20 years and didn't just stumble on it this week?

Your parents had astonishing...

In case everyone is talking at cross purposes, I recorded a video with the bitmap being stretched without ALT being held down with and then without Smart Transform being on, then with ALT being held...

Magix used to sell (and support) Xara's software, but now they don't.

You can keep using the version that you've got already, indefinitely. You don't need the Update Service for that. So, if you...

I'm not actually sure what the device does, but in highlighting the elderly "fall alarm" photos, my intention was to show how a product of a similar size (and presumably not too dissimilar function)...

That didn't feel right, so I checked Xara's help: there is a cache control, but it's not that one.

The docs refer to "Cache Control" on the Tune Ups tab of the same main Options window

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I think I've seen this before - both when my PC had been very low on memory, and with files with lots (like, thousands or tensof thousands) of objects on a page... especially when they've been...