D King wrote:
Does this mean I could get my Norm Abrams Xara interface skin?
No chance. We's have to double the size of the program to accommodate all the power tools this would need.
Although...
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D King wrote:
Does this mean I could get my Norm Abrams Xara interface skin?
No chance. We's have to double the size of the program to accommodate all the power tools this would need.
Although...
Yes MarkG's still here, just up to his eyeballs working on new stuff.
I'll tell him you asked after him.
Using transparency on a spot color won't work (as you discovered). Xara X uses a bitmap to create transparency effects and bitmaps always output to CMYK.
What would probably work is change the spot...
Hi Nena,
Can you send as much information as possible about which fonts are giving problems and what the problems are to
support@xara.com
We at Xara are not aware of any problems with using our...
Hi, we're back from our Christmas and New Year break so Happy New Year everyone.
Allthingsgraphic, can you email direct (mick@xara.com) with details of where you are. We have an old list of service...
William Armstrong wrote:
"If you load your background image into a paint package, you can use the magic wand tool (or a variant of it) to get an average colour of all the pixels in the image. Set...
Two possibilities:
1. The metafile is too complex for Xara3D to render. If it is too complex, the error message should tell you exactly that.
2. The metafile contains only a bitmap and not vector...
You cannot get an exact printed match for many screen colors. There are two reasons for this:
1. Some colors have no match between inks and the screen. For example magenta ink color has no match on...
Sorry been busy recently...
I can't find details of Avenir, Rotis or Stone Sans. The fonts which you might find useful are English, Europe, Straight, Tuwim, and OCR-B (all from our Professional...
Copying the bitmap uses a special format so that probably explains why it works when other method don't.
Emails to support@xara.com can get backed up, waiting for replies at busy times. Support look...
Some formats such as BMP and GIF don't have any concept of resolution - they always get displayed at screen resolution. As has been pointed out, GIF is limited to 256 colors and is not suitable for...
rgremill asked for a list of the BuyFonts.com fonts that are similar in appearance to fonts from other sources. Sorry but the big font foundries are very touchy about such lists. Both ourselves and...
Time for a quick sales plug. You favorite software company also sells fonts on line. Most of the "good fonts" listed are proprietary fonts, with a price tag to match. (Gill Sans and Univers certainly...
This was meant as a reply to carygee but I clicked the wrong button. It must be Friday...
In reply to Gary, on British TV there was a political thriller based on novels by Michael Dobbs. The...
We continue to develop Xara3D but we've never subscribed to the idea that you should release new versions exactly 12 months after the last release. It's better to have longer intervals and make each...
We continue to develop Xara3D but we've never subscribed to the idea that you should release new versions exactly 12 months after the last release. It's better to have longer intervals and make each...
Remembering bitmap resolution on import...
Answer is it depends on the bitmap format. Some formats such as GIF don't have the concept of resolution - they display at screen resolution (96dpi)....
The Print dialog lets you specify the screen frequency:
Bring up the Print dialog.
Click "Options".
Select the "Separations" tab.
Set "Default screen frequency" to the required value. The person...
Mark's out of the office today so can't reply.
Your CD is currently in the mailbag waiting collection. After that it's just up to the Post Office to deliver it.
Usually we despatch CDs the same or...
I don't know that answer to the first part but I've passed it onto our lead developer.
In answer to the speed question: a lot of very clever software, optimized for Windows. We have a common module...
This is not possible with AVIs - the format does not support transparent backgrounds. If you want transparency, you have to use Animated GIFs.
May I suggest you email support@xara.com with details of this problem.
We at Xara do not monitor these forums on a regular basis so might not pick up support problems for some time.
There are two types of EMF/WMF files:
1. Vector format - Xara3D can import these.
2. A file containing a bitmap - Xara3D cannot import the bitmap.
For full information on what can and cannot be...
We used to have a list of Xara-friendly bureaus on our old site. It's part of the "to do" list for pages to be added to the current web site but we haven't got round to it yet.
I've emailed...
Thanks for the posting Tracey. I've just looked at the Help source and there are just two places where "XaraDemo" is called instead of "XaraDemo.exe" (both on the Movies page). That will be fixed in...