Anyone else finding the new selection blobs very slow to redraw?
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Anyone else finding the new selection blobs very slow to redraw?
Hi All,
It seems a shame to bin these old versions of Xara, but they're not really worth anything second hand and they're just taking up space on the shelf.
Xara X (2001) [CD case]
Xara X1...
XaraDrawLog.txt:
Processor brand : "AMD Phenom(tm) 9950 Quad-Core Processor"
Multi-threading supported : 1
Logical processors : 4
Is AMD : 0
Cores per processor : 1
APIC_ID32 supported: 0
ID...
It's clearly using all cores on the Core i5 in work (MacBook Pro, running a Windows 7 through VMware with two cores available), but on the quad core Phenom at home I only ever see a single core being...
From http://www.xara.com/uk/products/designer/advanced/
I'll have to try it on my work quad core box, which is a Core i5.
Hi All,
I've just upgraded my PC to a quad-core Phenom CPU.
Xara Designer Pro 7 doesn't ever use more than one of the CPU cores.
Does it need explicitly enabling?
Dave
Another nice cute character tutorial for Illustrator here. Perhaps a little bit trickier to adapt for Xtreme than the similar octopus one I posted back in April.
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Strange. They repeatably crash on my home machine, but I've just tried them on my work machine and they load without a problem. Identical versions of Xtreme 5 are installed on both machines.
I've...
Hi,
Using:
Xara Xtreme 4.0.4966 CD, and
Xara Xtreme 5.1.1.9166 CD
I've found that the following files will load into the v4 version of Xtreme, but v5 will crash either with a Data Execution...
Thanks for the feedback guys.
I could extrude then convert to editable shapes, but that gives me a polygonal path entirely composed of line segments.
Similarly, extruding then tracing often...
Here's an effect I've been playing about with.
Any suggestions on how to do it more efficiently/elegantly gratefully received...
This is an anti-aliasing artefact. There's no actual gap inbetween the objects.
Each object is individually rasterised and anti-aliased onto its background. This piecemeal rendering results in the...
Xara Xtreme 5.1.0.9131 DL
Start with a blank document.
Add a page background colour.
Unlock the Page background layer.
You can now drag the background rectangle off the page.
Add a new page...
It has some very clever multiple master technology which synthesises a font to fit from a specification of the original.
Bought a Graphire 5.
Lovely.
Expensive.
Turned out it doesn't magically bestow you with drawing skills. :-|
Luckily they hold their value enough to flog them second hand on the ebays.
"Icons" in this case means the window controls / gadgets / widgets, not any graphical icons.
Here's a screenshot.
Xtreme 5.1.0.9131
Right click on the page and open 'Page Options...'
Select the 'Page Size' tab
With the Options dialogue still open...
Edit>Pages>New page
Edit>Pages>Delete current page
I...
BlamBot have some good quality free balloon and sound effect EPS files: http://www.blambot.com/resources.shtml
Nice tutorial here, easy enough to work through and adapt to Xtreme.
http://vector.tutsplus.com/illustration/create-a-super-happy-octopus-character/
Alright then...
Postage stamps.
Here's an idea I've been toying with about nested grouped contours.
I'd like Ctrl+A to work in the toolbar writable fields, selecting the text.
It's much quicker to Ctrl+A then type away than to double-click, or hold down backspace.
Regards,
Dave
Paste Attributes doesn't seem to work for me if the bitmap fill is set to _not_ repeat.
I create an object and give it a plain fill.
I then clone that object and give it the default bitmap fill....
Using Sysinternals' RegMon application I can see that Opera is continually querying and resetting the "HKCU\Control Panel\International\iDigits" registry key while loading a page. A quick test of...