Xara beta bugs

[Big Frank]

Please can we not have intelligent wrapping for objects in front of text? Surely this is a must for page layout???

[masque]

Please can we not have intelligent wrapping for objects in front of text? Surely this is a must for page layout???

I agree, unless you mean 'please can we not have it'? in which case I don't agree.
But yes vital especially for a document that is well endowed with graphics as most things produced in Xara will be.
Derek

[StevenWWinters]

Please can we not have intelligent wrapping for objects in front of text? Surely this is a must for page layout???

Or at least make the text box shape editable with the Shape Editor tool so that you could manually shape/wrap text around adjacent objects...

[Xhris]

Not a bug, more an omission perhaps. The new text tool is a fantastic improvement but could there not be the ability to have leaders for set tab positions so as to link items to prices for instance in a menu, (which I do a fair number of)
Just a simple dotted line..................please.
Derek

I'm sure other people will ask for this. In the meantime, you can use guides and then delete them.

[parahandy]

What/where xara beta?

[masque]

I'm sure other people will ask for this. In the meantime, you can use guides and then delete them.

Not sure how you can use guides as they would not print, I'm a talking about printable lines connecting one line of text to a defined tab stop as per the attached fragment.
Vital for lists of many types, menus in particular. This was done in Xara but of course was fiddly, should be easier now but for the lack of leaders.
Derek

[BrianMorin]

So far, fantastic upgrade.. but... default template is ignored on startup. I change mine to US letter with rulers and object attributes set a certain way, (saved as default) but each time I restart it defaults back to 800x600, no rulers, etc. I have to select new template to get what I saved as default.
I'm sure this will be fixed.

I Have Xtreme 2.0?? and it still does that. I use the same settings as you...

Bri

[Availor]

In the print world you wouldn't be able to do something spanning two separate pages vertically, nor can you in Xtreme. Each spread is distinct, so you can't have objects overlapping both.

Of course you can overlap horizontally, for example two pages in a spread.

Ok, so lets say I want to make a shape that will be spread on both pages, Do I need to cut it myself then? Seems more natural that the shape will be seen on both pages like in Indesign (If I remember correctly).

[AntonyF]

Ok, so lets say I want to make a shape that will be spread on both pages, Do I need to cut it myself then? Seems more natural that the shape will be seen on both pages like in Indesign (If I remember correctly).

If you want it to appear on two separate spreads, i..e pages 3 and 4 in a book, then yes. They're separate spreads so you'd expect that. If it's across a spread, i.e across pages 2 and 3, then you just place it across the two.

[DD]

I'm getting some very odd behaviour with the new text areas.

Load some text into the clipboard, drag a text area with the text tool, right click and choose "paste unformatted text" and the text doesn't go into the text area.

Try it again with a new text area and the offer of "paste unformatted text" has become "paste text object".

I am also getting text areas vanishing into thin air.

If you type a first character into the text area the area border goes red and I get different, but still odd, behaviour.

Maybe I'm just not used to Xara text handling, ctrl C/V seems to be ok.