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that could have put an unfortunate connotation on the name ;))

so kind gary :) 'twas naught but research, archivist would need more organisational skills than I care to admit to

https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?5172-roly-poly-little-bat-faced-girl-Challenge

and a great suggestion it is too, but I fear the chances are slim

pity

never used it much myself always prefered regedit, but for those who don't wish to dabble with that it does a very good job...

does change grid colours though as far as I recall ....

it's call XaReg - you may have come accross it before

it's freeware, so here you go, attached

when you run it make sure you tell it which version of xara you wish to amend if you have more than...

thanks acorn

it is good to know v20 is getting updates.. maybe next time; the error is very inconvenient

good to know, thanks :)

it does not appear to have fixed the stacking order bug with ctrl+B ctrl+F though, as per here:

https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?87899-bug-stack-order
...

daniel's suggestion of checking your ALT key was a good one, worth doing just in case...

did you read my last post ?

ok

I think you need :

smart transform off, and dont use alt key

OR

smart transform on, and use alt key

ie here: https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?88290-Update-service&p=660920#post660920

Magix no longer has any involvement in xara software - end of story

Your version 19 cannot no longer be updated - end of story

there will be no update service for your version, once your...

are you saying it is simply a resizing problem?

do you have aspect ratio lock on ?

if it is an image you can make a bitmap copy, at the same resolution, and that will fix your changes

the only way to avoid the issue completely is to use an earlier version from before they were...

I have great admiration for ernie-f, I have neither his skill,nor, his patience

xara's shape tool is way better than afinity designer in the way that it enables you to drag out line segments and...

that was a simplistic example, and besides what if you do not want a raindrop profiled eyelash...

either you get it or you don't, no problem to me if it is the latter; the very fact that Gare...

egg:

take a short line, of fixed weight which it has to be in xara, made with the line tool - then imagine just a quick drag on the end with the mouse/pen to bring it immediately to needle point -...

not really sure how brushes crept into this thread - sure you can use the tool to make a profiled line and make a brush from that, but it is the making of a profiled line that it is for; design it on...

from my perspective, if I were to ask it would be both as they both have their uses...

no need to be sorry acorn and I was not getting at you

long time ago everone said how quick xara was and how it was not bloatware; I don't see it that way any more, in fact the more I learn the...

draw cartoon line art in constant weight line and then scultpt them into profiles is what I do [actually in painttool-sai] - it is very quick and it gives smoother lines than handrawn pressure...

it's only in AD beta at the moment and currently that is rather flakey; but it looks good so far, as good as illustrator if not better; the line profiling tool is clunky in comparison but even that...

can't speak for CC, but when i squish i do it on the fly until it 'looks right' by just moving the one handle; anything more complicated is not going to cut it