Placing my request for the next version of Extreme

[haakoo]

Steve,

DrawplusX3 has an erasertool
And a knifetool to cut out and make you select the part you want to keep or not
And a freeformtool that let's you add to the object.
And sorry Bill,it's not a cpu heavy tool
Hans

[handrawn]

MS Expression has a Slice [knife tool] and Scissors too

[BONES]

It's lovely that these other packages have an eraser tool [so does Combustion, as well as a far more useful vector-based magic wand tool] but Illustrator is something like 3 times the price [still half the price of Combustion] and none of them are anywhere near a suseful as Xtreme overall [even Combustion], so how is it relevant?
Anyhoo, as to the original poster's little brain-snap, can someone tell me what you would use a GIF for in 2009, especially one with non-antialiased transparency? Has the man never heard of PNG? And in the context of what Xtreme is for and how it works, when would you need an eraser? Both issues seem related to things you might do if you have no idea what you are doing. He clearly has little idea how to elicit helpful responses on a forum, either.

[handrawn]

not making comparisons - just making a case that they can suit a workflow in a given package - and they are more common than not, but we digress maybe

I belong to an image hosting site which will not accept anything other than gif/jpg ...... I understand this is common.

[Soquili]

The problem with asking for an eraser is that it shows limited thought about how to accomplish a task in Xtreme or any graphic application.

An eraser is actually of little use in a bitmap editor, because you can simply replace anything by changing the pixel's attributes. It accomplishes the change in fewer steps. No erasing then applying new pixel attributes.

Pencil and paper and at least two types of eraser are good for traditional drawings.

Digital drawings are best accomplished without limiting your thinking as if you are using pencil and paper.

Drawing with ink doesn't respond well to use of an eraser, neither does digital drawing.

[handrawn]

unless you use it as an artistic tool Bill

[Soquili]

So does drawing with the background colour and does exactly the same thing. Still no need for the eraser.

[covoxer]

Here we go again... Steve, don't hijack the thread, it is not about vector eraser, it's about: "An eraser like Paint has." among other things.

[philt]

I tire of these 'critiques' based on incomplete knowledge and understanding. There's very little that can't be done in Xtreme. Work with it. If dr why finds it inadequate then he should just forget it; use some other tool; or—RTFM before posting.

[Doctor Why]

Well, apparently there are things that I may have not figured out here, but I'm fascinated by the amount of invective contained in the above posts.

Silly me, I thought that features in simple programs were attainable in more sophisticated programs.

As if I never read the help files or tried to learn this application.

This forum seems to be more about abuse than assistance, and although I could say that I am making earnest attempts to learn this stuff, I am asking for things that I know about and if it's covered by things that I don't know about, perhaps we could explore that path.

Taking an image to Paint to erase a couple of screwheads worked great. What is the analog in Xara?

Neodeist's first reply seems like something I could use, if not intuitive ("crop" doesn't yield very much in a search of the help file). I certainly didn't see anything like that in the manual.

Soquili's mention of selecting colors in the export dialog didn't work when I did it. I expected it to work like it does in Corel, but it only removed random sections of the chosen field. Perhaps the selection process in Xara is too sensitive, and it was excluding gradations that Corel would have tolerated?

As for SS-kalm's kind explanation, that worked for the photo part of the item but not the fields attached to it, which is what I was aiming for. Irfan would have just done the crop.

In any case, I'm too old to be disturbed by a display of crowd hysteria as displayed here. I'm asking questions because whatever I wanted to look up wasn't in the instructions, or wasn't indexed so I could find it, and the things that I did try didn't work. I thought that certain features were attainable, if the authors just decided to put them in. Like a button to let us erase. Or a button to let us crop. Aren't these normal things for a normal person to want?

If there's a jerk here, I don't think it's me.

DW

PS There don't appear to be any actual smiles in the Smileys, does there?