Xara beta bugs

[Xhris]

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.

It does if you Ctrl+V, or select paste from the edit menu. Right-clicking must assume focus on the document where you clicked and not the actual text box.

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

That's because Xara has now already been told what the object you just pasted in actually is. This is normal behaviour.

I am also getting text areas vanishing into thin air.

What are you doing to cause this? Text columns that are empty vanish (intentionally), but text boxes don't.

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

I assume it goes red to tell you theres text in there (as opposed to text that's white and thus invisible).

[Odat]

Anyone but me having problems getting the origin set to the upper left with Y increasing in the downwards direction?

All I did was go into the options and change the option for Y to increase downwards. However, the rulers still show that the upper left corner is 0, 600.

If I then create an object, the Y co-ordinate is a negative number. So I change the location manually, and the rectangle jumps downwards off the page.

From the looks of it, it's treating the upper left corner of the object as the origin, but the global page co-ordinates are still negative.

Incidentally, if I close Xara and then open it again, the Grid options return to Y going in the upward direction.

[Soquili]

Odat I set the Options then drag the origin to the upper left of the page.

[Odat]

Ahh thank you, that works!

My bad. I figured that since I was telling it the co-ordinates should increase the other way, it would automatically assume that 0 was at the top and not the bottom.

Although strangely that option (and the grid origin) does always reset itself whenever I open a new drawing. However as someone has already pointed out, the default template seems to be currently ignored, so the two issues are probably related.

[Soquili]

I've noticed it doesn't load my default template I saved earlier this evening.

Another thing, after making the changes for the Origin and Y increasing going down. If you open the Options it will show the old X=0 Y=600 although the coordinates will report correctly in the X and Y location boxes as long as your are working on the same drawing.

[bb2]

I've noticed it doesn't load my default template I saved earlier this evening.

Another thing, after making the changes for the Origin and Y increasing going down. If you open the Options it will show the old X=0 Y=600 although the coordinates will report correctly in the X and Y location boxes as long as your are working on the same drawing.

Soquili, can you attach the template you have tried to set as the default please?

Many thanks

[MarciaB]

I've noticed it doesn't load my default template I saved earlier this evening.

Mine does... Also you can - Save as: default page -

[Jon Payne]

Xara still seems to be suffering from a long standing issue with TIFF files that contain colour profiles. The attached image shows the same TIFF file drawn in both Xara and in Office. As you can see, the Xara version doesn't look so good.

The original TIFF file I used is here.

[Soquili]

Jon, I'm not sure I understand what you are saying. I think you imported the Symbol tiff image of the MC-70 into Xara and inserted it into an Office document and you see them rendered differently on your screen.

I imported the tiff image into Xara Xtreme Pro and opened it in Photoshop 7.0 using the imbedded profile. Here are screen grabs showing them side by side.

[aridzone]

Xara still seems to be suffering from a long standing issue with TIFF files that contain colour profiles. The attached image shows the same TIFF file drawn in both Xara and in Office. As you can see, the Xara version doesn't look so good.

The original TIFF file I used is here.

Jon how did you enhance that photo in xara!
I think the xara side looks much better.
Especially the screen!