Art brushes on closed shapes

[PhilM]

Hi everyone,

The latest patch fixes some problems with the way art brushes join together when they are applied to closed shapes. The joins are now much neater and this allows you to use art brushes as borders.

Here are some examples:



Bar00 Star.xar
Char00(1).xar

Phil

[gwpriester]

Cool fix.

Speaking of which, and maybe I missed it, but is there a summary of what was fixed in the latest patch?

[browj2]

This is on the Xara site under Support News:

Summary of improvements
•Replacement of Task Pilot Hosting with Xara Hosting in Web Designer.
•Art brush improvements and fixes, including better joining of outline on closed shapes.
•Updated FontAwesome font bringing more symbols to the symbol picker.
•Color selector (eyedropper) can cause serious error. Fixed.
•Strikethrough wrongly applied to some text on export to HTML. Fixed.
•Normal text sometimes inherits spacing properties from header text in the same column. Fixed.
•General bug-fixes and help updates

John

[gwpriester]

Thanks John.

[browj2]

@Phil,

That is superb! Thanks.

@Gary,

You're welcome. I was looking for more details, but that was all that I could find. I really like the improvement on closed shapes.

[csehz]

I am very satisfied with Xara Designer Pro X11, it is fast and stable.

Last year had a lot of issues with version X10 when it came out, on the level that even for long I used rather X9. But the version X11 from the beginning worked greatly, plus after these fixes it is so just even better

[angelize]

Here is a quick tip when creating brushes to be used as borders. There may be times when you want to be able to have the brush render on the outside of the shape. All you have to do is flip it either horizontally or vertically it doesnt matter as both work the same

[csehz]

That is a great tip Frances, thanks for it