"No, I'm using V18.5" I have a laptop with v16, and it doesn't seem to have an updater service, but it did have the upgrade expiry popup via PhotoGraphicDesigner.exe, but that is now blocked.
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"No, I'm using V18.5" I have a laptop with v16, and it doesn't seem to have an updater service, but it did have the upgrade expiry popup via PhotoGraphicDesigner.exe, but that is now blocked.
Interesting, does anyone know if it is specific to v17?
"You'd think that if you accept the install, it would at least work and not ask you again next time wouldn't you!"
Agreed, the Update service updater doesn't work, but as I said that's...
"Once again - IT ISN'T WORKING."
So the popups still come? My XPGD-17 definitely stopped getting these popups when I blocked their access to the Internet. The PhotoGraphicDesigner.exe one...
Why, thank you! :)
Egg; I like the idea of an embossing stamp, but does that not require two interlocking stamps, and possibly shallower relief? I haven't looked into that, so that might be a silly question. It would...
This is to answer the question I came here for, how to block the irritating Zombie update messages. I created two Outgoing rules in Windows Defender Firewall to block two of the Xara/Magix apps from...
The initial monogram design didn't take that long, only a couple of weeks on and off to make the 'in your face' Dragon 1, and a lot of that was mostly about tweaking the wings' phalanges. It was...
Actually I found it very hard to get decent photos of the stamps and the wax impressions. It was hard to get the lighting right, but here are my best efforts so far.
I should also mention that there...
Hi, Gary! Sorry I missed your 80th birthday, I just read about it today. I'm just remembering how many friends I made here, and most of them are still around. :)
OK, I've posted the article as a pdf in the Xara Art Gallery forum, as it seems the most appropriate place for the content. Sorry it took so long, there was a fair bit of tidying up to make things...
I mentioned to Egg a few days ago in another thread that I'd been doing some interesting things recently, and managed to talk myself into writing a short article about it, though it's more like...
I'm on it! :D Just organising things, so just a day or so, I think, and in a fresh post.
Hi, Egg, I hope you are well? I see many of the old faces (well, you know what I mean) are still around. Sorry to be coming back with problems instead of solutions these days. I did notice earlier...
I've been getting this message, too, every time I run up the app, but it never installs anything, because next time whether I had clicked on it or not, it asks me to install it all over again, and...
Hi, Gary, I'd forgotten I'd made that a tutorial! I still dabble in Xara3D on rarish occasions, and much more frequently in Xtreme, but that is mostly to do with drawing CAD objects for a milling...
Ahem, from 2017 :D
This uses the cross-eyed method. I really struggle with the parallel kind!
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Hmmm, that is supposed to animate! :( Are animated gifs blocked? It is only showing...
I am so going to try that, I hope it works. But I found an exception to the 300px import of an SVG, one of my SVG files came in at 200px, and I have no idea why.
Egg, it's also just plain rude. Whoever created the original SVG artworks in their Stock Illustrations didn't set their dimensions at random, the authors chose a size they deemed appropriate and...
Handrawn, while I was out on my exercise walk this morning, I thought that there may be a registry key that might disable, or amend the behaviour of that function. I'm still going to look at that,...
Handrawn also pegged it, and you are right, Egg. While it is deliberate policy to resize automatically on loading, the idea that all imported vector files can be suitably resized at will misses the...
Hah! Found it. Pg 33 of the XPGD17 Manual, Stock Illustrations:
"Because the original vector files vary enormously in size, graphics larger than around 300px are scaled down."
In practice...
Oh, dear! I just spent the last 10 minutes or so exporting squares of increasing size from my new XD17 as SVGs ('selected only'), and re-importing the resulting SVG. ALL of the imported squares were...
They are actual SVG-XML files. The reason for the interest is that shortly after I retired more than seven years ago I took up an interest in CNC milling, and bought myself a Shapeoko kit, and built...
Hi, Egg, thanks for the time you put into the video. As I was watching it, I noticed you were saving and loading the second ship counter, which was the enlarged one that resulted from importing the...