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  1. #1
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    Default Re: Wish List for V12

    My problem, Eric, is a problem of scale and of time. It's not a deal-breaker that Xara Designer doesn't get the whole numbers right without manual intervention. It's a nuisance.

    For example: The last month's site I did for the Xara Xone, last August? It took me over 90 minutes, while the meter is running, to get the screen captures all nice and even along the edges, as professionals are wont to do (, because I had over two score of images to go into the Content Management System.

    What I expect is that if a program calls itself "Pro", then it should accommodate those people who do sites for a living, with the least amount of unavoidable grief put on the buyer of such software.

    By the way, I, too, cannot justify buying Photoshop merely for making images pixel-perfect around the edges. I'm not even using the Cloud version, but stayed at CS6 as part of my working tools. Adobe Photoshop Elements 14 can do the same thing with edge pixels for under $100. But this is hardly the point.

    This is a Wish List. I'd like to see it continue without contention. I've argued for prioritizing this list just as you have, Eric: I feel that this is a drawing program first, and a web designing program second, and yet the majority of the wishes here are for more/better website creation tools.

    So I'd be a hypocrite if I told you to leave my wishes alone here, don't downplay them, but I'll put up with the inconvenience as long as I've registered it here.

    It took three versions to get the brush effects I've been pleading for.

    I'll just wear knee guards in the future if I'm going to be down on my knees for this long.

    My Best,

    Gary
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    Default Re: Wish List for V12

    Hi Gare,

    Like Egg, I'm not sure I fully understand what you're asking for. I think possibly what you're saying is that when a design is exported as a bitmap you'd like Camelot to stretch/compress it slightly to ensure that the design is a whole number of pixels wide and high and thus exactly fits the bitmap... Am I right?

    That would mean that a circle in the design might not be an exact circle in the exported bitmap but you'd put up with that for the convenience of not having to fiddle with the bitmap edges. Still right?

    Phil
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    Default Re: Wish List for V12

    That's exactly what I'm obsessing on, Phil, thanks. :) We need whole integer exports, or, for example, I get one or two pixels in width of a transitional color, which usually is incompatible with any solid colour background. Example:

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    And it's been this way for versions and versions, Phil, just like the presumption that any bitmap copied to the clipboard shall be recognized as sRGB. This plays almost as much havoc with images destined for print, as the partially opaque edges on bitmaps that were created with fractional integers.

    The bitmpa editors I use clamp the floating point to a whole amount.

    Can Xara Designer do this, too?

    One who exports scors of images to WordPress from Xara every day, :)

    Gary
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    Default Re: Wish List for V12

    I don't know if I am understanding all the conversation but what I can say is that I faced problems when I export to bitmap that has text inside and text is not placed exactly in a pixel, when I see that bitmap on screen text looks blur then I have to reposition text to a rounded pixel to get a perfect representation on the screen, if I have a choice that everything I place where placed over whole pixels will be very in handy.
    I am not an expert and maybe I am doing something wrong or not but that is what I repeteadly face.
    According borders, again, may be We are talking about the same issue but every time I clip objects you can see a border around the clipping.
    best regards.
    Javier
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    Default Re: Wish List for V12

    Could a "Snap to Pixel" option work to allow you to only draw objects on full pixel boundaries? I don't think stretching on export is the right solution due to the distortion it could introduce.
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    Default Re: Wish List for V12

    I think I found a work around.
    I set the grid to 10 px maximun space and 10 subdivisions.
    Set snap to grid.
    Now everything seems to work fine
    Javier
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    Default Re: Wish List for V12

    We have Most Recently Used for font styles, colours, and some Live Effects, but not Make a Bitmap copy.

    It's quite frustrating to press Ctrl+Shift+C to Make a Bitmap Copy, the depth box says TrueColor+Alpha, I correct it to read TrueColor (NO alpha), ba-da-bing, done. So I go on to the next piece I want to export, and wouldn't you know? TrueColor+Alpha again.

    In one Xara session, can you make the Bitmap Copy>Color Depth "sticky"?

    TIA,

    Gary
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