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I've used Keep-It to create complete revision archives for drawing and writing projects. It's simple, free, and small. Worth checking out...
http://www.keep-it.com/default.asp

Ed

For a couple years I've used a small macro program called Keytext to reassign shortcut keys, and create a few more. It's a very good solution.

But now I've discovered mouse gestures! They're fun...

Mickie,

The attachment refers to your second experiment, and shows that the
starting point has a total weight of somewhere between two and three
regular nodes. The cyan examples show that curves...

Egg,

I looked at your slicing exploration, and can suggest that straight and curved lines need to be differentiated. It's easy to verify that curved lines have more 'weight' than straight ones,...

For finer nudging control, zoom in and use alt.
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If you have your nudge factor set to 1 pixel, you probably know you can use ctrl-shift with a cursor key (arrow) to nudge...

For finer nudging control, zoom in and use alt.
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If you have your nudge factor set to 1 pixel, you probably know you can use ctrl-shift with a cursor key (arrow) to nudge...

John,

Your isometric tutorial is remarkable! I've downloaded it and intend to put it to good use within the next few weeks.

Cheers!
Ed Nadie

In the paper and pencil world, the usual way to draw a line is to start at a point, and draw the line with its angle measured relative to its starting point. In XX-land, this isn't the case because a...

MadMan,

You've gotten some great advice here, and I agree with most all of it, in particular the benefit of a wider text margin. Here are a few comments on a slightly different track....

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To interpret the values in the angle fields ('A') on the shape editor's infobar, it is necessary to know how XX measures the angle, and which line the value refers to.

With the node as the center...

To interpret the values in the angle fields ('A') on the shape editor's infobar, it is necessary to know how XX measures the angle, and which line the value refers to.

With the node as the center...

Mickie, this is how I deal with extraneous line artifacts from added shapes, and it usually reduces the flaws to where they don't affect the results:

» set line width to none
» to view flaws...

Hi Gary,

First, I want to thank you for your lucid tutorials. They have made learning XX quick and painless, and I'm sorry to repay you with aggravation.

The idea behind macros is to get the...

I recommend macros to make XX more convenient and fun. These are a few I've set up for myself...

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color/attributes from palette.xar:

The first two macros are...

I recommend macros to make XX more convenient and fun. These are a few I've set up for myself...

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color/attributes from palette.xar:

The first two macros are...

Joroho, I also keep a xar file of color combinations from the same site. My favorite description is 'grass and moon tones'.

For a saccadic treatment of the people's fave's, check out the...

Everyone can't be right; in fact based on the mutually exclusive claims of the current major tautologies, at best a quarter of humanity holds beliefs that correspond to the way things really are. In...

The default perspective mold is the useful one. The four presets (left, right, floor, ceiling) are pointless variations -- since they ignore foreshortening, you usually end up having to move at least...

The default perspective mold is the useful one. The four presets (left, right, floor, ceiling) are pointless variations -- since they ignore foreshortening, you usually end up having to move at least...

Ross, that was something I noticed without understanding what it meant, but as you suspected it simply represented the last saved state of the file. (I checked to make sure.) The crash pattern...

I noticed a certain pattern of crashes using layers, so I did a test with five layers, one simple object on each layer. The pattern I see is that Xara always crashes when I try to move objects with...

I noticed a certain pattern of crashes using layers, so I did a test with five layers, one simple object on each layer. The pattern I see is that Xara always crashes when I try to move objects with...

This technique is also useful for grouping multiple complete shapes. My idea is to try to use it like the art nouveau guys did -- using line width in some sort of hierarchy. I'll attach a simple...

You've drawn a cartoon and like what the lines look like. Maybe they remind you of bamboo, maybe they were an accident and you can't do that good again. You would however like to apply a precise...

I like to draw by stacking and joining shapes which creates a shape with holes. In order to fill the entire shape, including the interior holes, I've found that applying clipview onto a disposable...