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There are a couple of other public/free software routes you might try before resorting to purchasing a copy of CorelDraw or Illustrator...

1. Print to a file from Xara using an HPGL plotter driver...

John -

If you're refering to the AMP Font Viewer I listed above, then yes, I have installed it, but only just recently. I have not had any troubles as a result. The utility is listed by two...

John -

If I understand your question correctly, I think applications already exist that do what you want. Take a look at AMP Font Viewer (http://www.ampsoft.net/utilities/FontViewer.php) or The...

A tablet PC might have the interface you are looking for. Check out http://www.tabletpctalk.com/ for a list of current models.

- Pete

There are many programs that provide lossless rotation of JPEGs. The Independent JPEG Group keeps a list of applications that use it's code to do so at http://www.jpegclub.org/losslessapps.html. ...

Gary -

Perhaps Custom Flag3D is the flag screensaver you were talking about: http://www.improbablesoftware.com/flag3d/index.htm. It looks like ther's an older free version available at...

You might also try one of the multitude of "universal" spell-checkers available for Windows platforms. A few are:

Tinyspell
http://www.megspace.com/computers/tinyspell/
Free. Monitors typing and...

There is a workaround in the meantime....

Recent versions of Windows actually use Internet Explorer to display the help files, so you can change the font size for help files by changing the...

It looks to me like Xara is simply using a different definition of "center" for the alignment tool than it is for the quickshape tool.

The "x" in the middle of each quickshape appears to be the...

Thanks John - I think I understand what you did and it is a relatively simple solution.

It wasn't immediately clear to me at first (even after seeing John's post), so here's a text description of...

I started thinking about this problem and couldn't come up with an easy solution in Xara. For me, the real question became:

Can shapes or lines be joined in such a way as to enable distortion of...

It's not exactly a fix, but a workaround might be to use a utility such as OpenExpert (http://www.baxbex.com/openexpert.html).

- Pete

I think Richard is referring to opening an *image* file (.jpg, .gif, .bmp, etc) using the "open with" right-click option in Windows Explorer.

I just tried opening a .jpg with Xara X1 from Windows...

My boxed version arrived in good shape today here in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. The extra disk with all of Gary's material was included as was the shortcut card. It kind of surprised be to see...

Antony -

When you move a topic to a new location will any links/pointers to that post in other topics be updated to reflect the new location?

- Pete

Sheff -

I'm using Dell laptop with a 1.2 GHz Pentium III chip running Windows XP Pro. I think that one difference in your process to create PDF files and my process is that your tools all create...

Sheff -

I'm not sure if the document you posted renders the same on my machine as it does yours. Upon loading, all layers were "not viewable" and when I turned on both foreground layers and the...

Thanks Antony - sounds like you're being properly methodical and cautious about the changes!

Antony -

If I understand correctly from your posting in the question for AnthonyF thread, new forum software will be implemented shortly that will have a limit on the number of posts that can be...

Antony -

If I understand correctly from your posting in the question for AnthonyF thread, new forum software will be implemented shortly that will have a limit on the number of posts that can be...

Gary -

I'm also in the camp preferring the #2 logo. While I do prefer that logo over your other choices, it does not scream builders or femininity in any particular way, other than the flowing...

Updated Link

Here is the link to the comic now that it's in the "archive" section: http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20031214.html

Funny stuff! I never "got" Dilbert...

You could accomplish this with MuRa's free Polar Transform plug-in available at http://www.geocities.com/murakuma/mmplugins.html . It is a Photoshop-compatible plug-in and appears to work well with...

I see this thread is still going...

I think that "The Web page could not be saved to the selected location" error may in this case be related to an Internet Explorer security patch that blocks...

I've done a bit of searching for decent web gallery generating programs recently and came up with a short list of favorites.

The one I settled on is the same as mentioned above, Arles Image Web...