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  1. Thread: Mayan Blood

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    Re: Mayan Blood

    Egg,

    Amazing...I could not get this far, in fact, I was approaching it the wrong way. I will study your image and try to get the depth thing figured out.

    Thanks a ton for the insight.

    milt
  2. Thread: Mayan Blood

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    Mayan Blood

    Hi All,

    I am stumped...I have been trying to reproduce W.B. Johnston's "Mayan Blood" image in Xara for weeks to no avail (http://www.wbjohnston.com/mexico/mayanblood.html). I just cannot seem to...
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    Using Xara Masks to animate video text

    This post focuses on Xara's great transparency properties and high quality PNG's to create production quality masks for video.

    In my seventh home movie, I decided to have a theme based on the...
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    Re: Can Any software do this? part 2

    AutoCAD (LT or full version) can do this.

    In a differnet "ballgame", you can script After Effects to draw things like this based on math formulas (radius, pi, center point, etc.) but its "goal"...
  5. Thread: Love Postcard

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    Re: Love Postcard

    That message you saw was in fact from a few days ago re: iStockphoto. The 2000 data was my "sign up date". Everyone is good...keeping me busy.

    Milt
  6. Thread: Love Postcard

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    Love Postcard

    I have been using Xara for many years (Thanks Gary for showing it to me back in '97). I have been using it lately, for personal video - home movies. Not your run-of-the-mill 1-hour of a sleeping baby...
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    Re: iStockphoto and Xtreme

    I have been around, but as Gary knows, I work for a company that stresses data over "pretty" (your computer is probably using our CPU :) and it takes me away from Xara more than I would like. I poke...
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    iStockphoto and Xtreme

    Hi All,

    I went to iStockPhoto to download a background for my latest project and when I log in I see a discussion on Xara Xtreme.
    ...
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    New users you say? Video: The majority of...

    New users you say?

    Video:
    The majority of video users I know could benefit from Xara's solid alpha transparency output and strong antialiasing. I ahve been using it exclusively in Adobe After...
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    Well this, I think, is what was giving me grief....

    Well this, I think, is what was giving me grief. I found that John's and Robin's method worked well plus the text-reversing HTML site I posted above. I tried every export filter Word had...RTF came...
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    Guess. what...I found something that will reverse...

    Guess. what...I found something that will reverse my text. After I export the word file to HTML, as John had suggested, and pasted it into Xara (LTR), I can past this text into Text Reversing Tool
    ...
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    Hi John, That sounds like a good idea...I...

    Hi John,

    That sounds like a good idea...I definitely like WHAT X3d6 can do. In this case, though, I am actually working on a montage with several hundred characters which tends to slow down even...
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    John's solution is great...it does work. I loaded...

    John's solution is great...it does work. I loaded easy heb however I cannot read the menu because it is in Hebrew. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif I thought I downlaoded osme...
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    That is the problem...I don't know what...

    That is the problem...I don't know what characters to pick and if the text has already been written, why can't we just "transfer" it over?

    Milt
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    Good threads...however, how do I copy...

    Good threads...however, how do I copy pre-existing (written) Hebrew text from Word into Xara. Someone wroite some Hebrew in Word, then I tried copying and pasting and it give me garbage.

    I...
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    Hi John, I have been using Xara (since V1.5)...

    Hi John,

    I have been using Xara (since V1.5) for video in Premiere and After Effects for a while years now. I just create a 720 x 480 pixels box in Xara when working in NTSC output mode (export...
  17. Thread: Linked Objects

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    This feature has been available in Corel Draw for...

    This feature has been available in Corel Draw for a few versions...it is called Clone. Where you create a image/object, then create a clone. You modifiy the master and the children (clones) are...
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    Yes, I looked at the TEMP folder and no files...

    Yes, I looked at the TEMP folder and no files that came close. I ended up redoing it. It could not wait.

    On a lighter note...I have not posted anything in a while. I have been neck deep in work (I...
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    Thanks for the info. I tried the temp folder and...

    Thanks for the info. I tried the temp folder and scanned my drive for every file created around the time of the &^*(*^% that was of similar size with a .BAK or .TMP extension - NADA.

    The...
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    I am hoping that someone has run into this one...

    I am hoping that someone has run into this one before...

    I was working on a Xara file. A second after I clicked "Save", I received a message stating:
    A read error ocurred (unknown) with the file...
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    I am hoping that someone has run into this one...

    I am hoping that someone has run into this one before...

    I was working on a Xara file. A second after I clicked "Save", I received a message stating:
    A read error ocurred (unknown) with the file...
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    And I thought it was me. It is the most annoying...

    And I thought it was me. It is the most annoying thing. I was paranoid in and then was not about it. I saw it on new builds and old builds. I see it all the time now and cannot figure out what makes...
  23. Hi, Debabelizer pro has a batching...

    Hi,

    Debabelizer pro has a batching functionality that allows you to open a collection of files, change the palette, and resave, all from a script. The script is configured and ran via the UI so it...
  24. This sounds like the old Flash Generator which...

    This sounds like the old Flash Generator which has now evolved into Flash Remoting. You used to define a flash template, and through a text file/database, etc. could update the template with real...
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    Gary, When I receive any new PC from DELL (or...

    Gary,

    When I receive any new PC from DELL (or any OEM), I don't even start the system. I reinstall the OS and reinstall the drivers from scratch. This wipes the crap they tend to load new PC's...
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