Xara Web Designer Updated

[nobbyy]

Boy - I was wanting to try the auto-fit function.

Egg - good idea, but I take it that I would not have access to all of the content?

[Boy]

I see. Let's hope that XDP has some extra goodies to make up for the longer wait and the fact that our old goodies have been ported to P&GD and WDP (don't hold your breath though...).

[letsgofishing]

Anyone have any luck trying to get the Autofit to page working?
I created a single web page as a sample using a design from the P&LG to 960px wide.
I then copied all the page elements, created a new document to 1200px wide and pasted in place.
Then selected all the objects and tried Auotfit - nothing at all happens - manual, automatic, width, width and height - nada.
I was hoping that this new feature?? would make it simpler to create a new page size that I could then copy, create a new variant to the same page width for the original site and simply paste that into place......

[Boy]

I use XDP so I don't have the Auto Fit option yet but I think this is how it works. First select the objects on your page and choose which Auto Fit options you want to apply. Next (having made sure that the page size is not locked) change the page size by using a preset page size or by dragging (with the Selector Tool) the bottom or right edge of the page. The objects will resize accordingly.

Take a look here for further explanations: http://releasenotes.xara.hosting/auto-fit/.

[letsgofishing]

Thanks Boy - eventually worked it out for websites. If you have pics and text on a page and you want the pics to maintain their aspect ratio, you have to select the "scale" buttons at the bottom of the vertical and horizontal options - other wise the pics get cropped left and right to fit the (new) narrower page size. Then select the text blocks and under the horizontal options, select "% scale width" button.

[yjs]

I'm trying to figure out how to use the auto-fit function to adapt the narrower themes in the gallery. The Elementary theme is 760 pixels wide. What is the best way to adapt this so that it is 955 pixels using the auto fit feature? Or am I still best doing this manually?

BTW I really hope they send current users an announcement soon about the upgrade. I usually check this forum at least daily but was tied up with an emergency this last fortnight. I was nevertheless constantly checking the update feature as I heard in a support ticket that an upgrade was imminent, but of course the update feature reported that my programme was up to date.

[yjs]

I'm trying to figure out how to use the auto-fit function to adapt the narrower themes in the gallery. The Elementary theme is 760 pixels wide. What is the best way to adapt this so that it is 955 pixels using the auto fit feature? Or am I still best doing this manually.

I've tried all sorts of permutations to try and use autofit to make the narrower themes wider, but nothing seems to work and I end up adjusting the elements by hand as before... Am I missing something obvious?