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You can use mask mode to do exactly what you want:

- Engage Mask mode (Ctrl+M in my setup), the screen turns pink
- Draw a rectange or any other shape on the mask layer (the default drawing layer...

If you disable group squashing using the registry setting, does group scaling go back to functioning correctly (without the odd undo artefacts, etc. that occur even when holding down alt) ?
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Thanks for taking the time for such detailed replies, Egg.
The custom brush technique with gaps to absorb spacing differences is clever - I like it a lot.

Cheers,
Jesse

Hello all,

Is there a method to give a line a "squiggly" looking variable width? Somewhat like the "Intestine" pressure profile, but as you can see in this drawing,

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the number of...

I particularly appreciate how you express the elements of traditional visual representation in your vector art (as with the gold brocade contributing to the volume of the garments). As everyone...

Three points.

1. I'm running Xara 5 on Windows 64-bit with no problems, so it's at least possible on some configurations.
2. Try the thread settings mentioned in this discussion

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The iridescent shading of the blossom that's your Facebook profile picture is very impressive too.

I'd always had an intuition that this type of rendering was the classical art style for which...

These are wonderful!

The style of shading on the rocks and leaves reminds me of traditional Japanese tattoo.

Do you construct the entire piece as one document, or draw the parts and assemble...

My life has just become happier because of Break Shapes. It's...amazing.

Thanks everyone! What a community.

Heh heh, thanks - I'd extracted it from this drawing:

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I'm not sure how it started, but this particular style of six-legged octopus (hexapus?) became a tradition among a few friends of...

Thank you, that is an amazing technique, mwenz and handrawn! I totally wasn't expecting 'Break Shapes' to be the key.

I'd only used Break Shapes to reverse a Join Shapes command -- what is the...

Heh heh, thanks.

I don't particularly mind doing it, but I just didn't want to overlook a "Arrange->Zen Merge Lines" command.

Best,
Jesse

Hello everyone,

Often I have a group of lines that visually bound a closed shape, but aren't shapes as considered by Xara. For instance, in the image attached, the top group is a bunch of lines,...

Thanks, Egg, for taking the time to put that together - very informative to see how you did it.

~Jesse

Thanks for your suggestions, everybody! Depending on the situation and bitmap, each of these is quite useful.

~Jesse

Hello all,

Does anyone know a good technique for applying gradual, linear perspective to textures used to fill shapes? An example will make my question much clearer (the attached drawing, both in...

Bouton's "Xara Xtreme 5" The Official Guide" book goes far beyond the product manual in explaining how to use combinations of features to achieve a variety of the photorealistic effects one sees in...

Thanks, Fred C and Acorn, for trying out the blend yourselves.

As you said, in that file, I can get the blends to work by going right to left, or reversing paths - but why this is true for certain...

Hello,

I've been trying to extract the logic behind Xara's handling of multi-stage blends, but am having trouble.

Here's an example. I have these objects:

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and create a blend between...

This happens to me with Xara v5 pretty frequently -- I'm not sure if the issue is the same as in the later version, but I found that by setting the dropdown from "Normal Color" to "Tint" or "Shade"...

Ah, quite useful to know!

It does sound likely that the initial construction of my squares was affected by the width of the lines.

Is there a way to see exactly the position and size of an...

mwenz, thanks for taking the time to look through the files.

Indeed, when I switched page units to pixels, I saw that my rectangles were not whole pixels after all.

When PhilM wrote



I'd...

Thanks for more detail on the slicing method you use.

I tried it (and attached Test Slice.xar), and have an odd visual artefact.

You can see in odd_assembly.png that there is a strange...

Thanks for your replies, mwenz and Albacore.

I tried making a tile pattern and exporting in pieces that way, but Xara likes to put a very thin band of background around each exported slice. If...

1. Yup, 6000x6000 pixels.
2. I've found that when exporting to PDF, when using certain features like bitmap transparencies scaled to very small dimensions, one would see artifacts when viewing the...