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  1. Thread: Grunge

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    Re: Grunge

    Adobe has a Grunge font, easy to use. Years since I last used it, Pagemaker days in fact. :rolleyes:
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    clipping path

    Will xara 5 clipping path scale the PNG image to size? Need a original art scaled to the dimensions of a rectangle. Have xara 3.2 and thinking of upgrade to 5 if need be. Also need to move the PNG...
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    Re: Laptop vs Desktop - your thoughts?

    The desktop 24" monitor is mounted on the wall at perfect height to stand at the drafting table. The wireless mouse and keyboard on the table. I stand and draw with xara on a wacom. But the new...
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    Re: Xara is strong but has huge weakness

    Have Xara 3.2 works perfect and after trial of Xara 5 I see no big deal. Web design is out, the photo thing is useless. The drawing tools are the same and excellent as usual. A needed change, the...
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    Re: clip view work?

    yea, just worked, one click, xara ok after all. ;)
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    clip view work?

    Try to clip a photo into a shape. The clip view does nothing, the help talks of ancient painting rules, what the hey? A photo into a star, big time stuff huh?
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    Re: XX5 - Woooo! Another Let Down

    A long time ago we learned Adobe stuff, PS 4, Ill 4, etc., then we worked with printers who still run old broken-down apple systems. With all that in our brains we follow COJ-church of jobs-a long...
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    Re: XX5 - Woooo! Another Let Down

    Xara 5 tryout loads and runs fast to Windows 7 RC. Thing is W7 looks like a Fisher Price toy, Xara 5 looks the same as 3.2 and extra cash to upgrade, don't care about web design, is that what I pay...
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    Re: draw a n open half circle?

    Soquili,
    Can the type on your half circle be centered on the curve? The flat of letter e centered on the half circle. This was done in Freehand before Adobe consumed it, with type layout centered...
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    Re: Do you use an art pad?

    Use the wacom intuos for computer drawing. Outdoors in the North West with the pencil and sketch pad then scan into Xara, Photoshop or Painter for the brushes. Once used a notebook computer but no,...
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    Re: Xara 3.2 printing trees

    The background trees are green under a white/blue snow, with a white/gray part transparent gradient over them.
    Forground trees are large, green, snow covered limbs, print excellent. The mystery is...
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    Xara 3.2 printing trees

    Forest scene with foreground pine trees printing and background trees in a snow haze created with gradients not printing. All the trees are snow covered drawn with xara pen tools, each a copy...
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    textures vanish

    After I use a texture like black/white fills or stone textures the file vanishes from the fills window menu. Have to re-load, and the entire window menu of texture fill appears, now with double set...
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    Xara 3.2 printing stopped

    Epson R200 stopped printing a xara 3.2 drawing. The drawing is a sunset with gradients, but xara 2.0 printed trouble-free.
    A simple line drawing printed fast, no troubles on 3.2. I did get the...
  15. Re: Printers: Question re Epson Stylus R1800, HP 8750 or HP B8350

    Thanks for the reply. The prints were to be my Xara art. After reading the posts and the ink and paper costs my letter size epson R200 will do ok. The local printers need 200 to 500 print runs of...
  16. Printers: Question re Epson Stylus R1800, HP 8750 or HP B8350

    Thinking of a new large format printer. Anyone have exp. with the Epson Stylus R1800, HP 8750 or HP B8350. Run Xara Extreme on XP
    Thanks
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    Re: first impressions of inkscape

    Inkscape crashes with a mouseclik anytime. I don't know what inkscape is trying to do, Xara, a creative powerhouse, runs perfect on XP, I see no reason to use Inkscape for studio work or anything at...
  18. Thread: guide lines

    by posterart
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    guide lines

    With Xara linux the guide lines will not clear when I check the guides off in the window menu. I need to scroll the page to clear guides. Printing doesn't work, export as png to Open Office to...
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    Re: What is the big hype about eps

    Yes, images have to be flattened for eps format. Always save the original in layers in native format, Photoshop, Illustrator for changes. The newest formats pre-press. can handle. For Xara that...
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    Re: What is the big hype about eps

    Created by adobe years ago for postscript fonts and images in commercial plate making and 4 and 6 color imagesetters. For offset printing design, layout newspapers and books in Quark Express, In...
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    Scale bitmap fills

    I have a drawing of 2 arches on letter size page. How can I scale to fit the stone bitmap fills and change the direction of the stone on the arches sills? This is an isometric drawing with a beach...
  22. Re: How did you get started in computer graphics?

    Started with computers in '93 at a lakeside cabin in the Rocky Mtns. Bad electric power, mice and an old outhouse at zero temps! I had a tiny 486 Epson notebook with Illustrator 4, loaded from a...
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    vector pen draw

    A quick question: I place 1 point with the pen tool, a 2nd point for a inside curve for a vase drawing. The 2nd point has 2 handles, I need the 2 handles to retract for a small curve to a 3rd point...
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    stretch drawing

    My pencil sketch has a race car stretching around an S curve in perspective, front to back the full length of the curve. Type on a curve does this, possible with a Xara vector drawing? Drawing fit...
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    Scissors tool

    A request for a scissors and knife tool for Xara Exterme, as a Freehand user I miss the tools. I used the slider and adjust points tool in Xara but the knife tool is faster, like an old xacto knife...
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