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Relatively simple one: arrowheads which end at the end of the line.

This would also help the earlier post about rotating an arrowed line and not knowing where the end is going to be, and also with...

You might find this very old, very long and rambling post by me useful:

http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?26011-Exporting-artwork-to-MS-Word

Thanks Gary - that's how I do it at the moment, but it always feels like a pain - I was hoping for something easier, but if you don't know it, it doesn't exist.

(Using XDP7)

I endlessly find that I have text line objects which I later wish had been proper text areas (because I want to control the size of their bounding box, for example).

Is there any...

OK, sorry, I stand corrected - I have taken the mistaken impression from some of these sort of posts that the crash occurs during the save.

Before I wrote my original post, I did watch XD6 do a...

That's a depressingly passive approach! We can always ask Xara to make things better, especially when it's a simple change.

The safe way for apps to overwrite their data files is to write to a...

It's inexcusable that a crash-during-save corrupts the one-and-only saved file anyway, as there's a simple technique as old as the hills for avoiding that particular problem.

I don't read that post as meaning 'we already support it so we're not doing any more', I read it as 'we're going to add XAML export and we already understand it because we did XPS'

Sadly it hasn't...

I'd like to think there wasn't anyone doing serious CAD in Xara, but then I know people who draw electronic schematics in Word, so there are no limits to a sufficiently stubborn desire to use the...

The bit which eludes me is what the 'illustrators' want the arrowheads for in the first place...

Exactly. For dimensioning and pointing to things on diagrams, you always want the point to be at the end of the line, which is why all CAD packages and apps like Visio and Word/Office always have...

I have a feeling this has been asked for since the beginning of time, but could we please have arrowheads which point to the end of the line, rather than hanging out past it?

Pretty much every use...

Can you find that PNG file and delete it manually using Windows?

If nothing else, that might give you a clearer message about what the problem is.

Of course, you now have a copy in the root directory which won't get updated when the rest of the application's updated, and may confuse things down the line.

Seems to me if you can manage the...

On this system (Win7), the new dark skin for Xara has window caption buttons (maximize, minimize, close) which are markedly smaller than the system default.

Both the main window and the MDI child...

The last time we tried to re-raise this in the main forum, we were told to post here - I thought I'd wait in optimism for 6 to get XAML export, but it didn't...

So, can I repeat the request for...

This stuff is not really relevant to whether a particular application (like Xara) is going to run out of memory, because the ultimate amount of memory space available to an application is not much...

Glad it helped!

This video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQKIbTIEAwQ

has several different ways of drawing things in XX - around 5mins in Bob's drawing shapes with F4.

My guess would be that there are a large number of different ways of representing any given freehand line with a set of nodes. I've no idea what algorithm Xara use, but it might just be very hard...

I thought I'd bump this thread again, as it's about a year since we last all added our votes to it.

Xara was our prime tool for doing 'artwork for software' here, but as things continue to move...

Lol. Sometimes I wonder if I only post here as a means of seeing what imaginative excuses the regulars can come up with when they detect something which might be taken as a slight against Xara.
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There are an almost infinite number of ways to introduce multi-threading bugs into applications. It would appear that Xara found a way which most other people have overlooked ;-)

I don't know...

It's a fair point that Xara have been caught-out in some assumption about multi-core behaviour which doesn't hold true for recent processors.

But I suspect that anyone hoping for Intel to fix this...

This conflates two subtly different issues. Like you say, the graphics card memory uses part of the system's total address space, which is much more of an issue on 32bit machines than 64bit...

On a 64bit OS you can have the full 4G for the application, if you use this switch.

On a 32-bit OS it may be able to expand the app's space up to 3G (from the normal 2G), but only if the OS has...