DESIGNER PRO 16 !

[Fred vanderZee]

Hi Everyone, sorry for the delay, spent most of last week with a cold and then come back to the hectic release of V16!

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We will only offer Xara in 64 bit from now on also. I'm afraid we will no longer be offering 32 bit versions of Xara.

Please let me know if you have any questions!

Kind Regards
Rob

I have two questions: since you only offer 64-bit versions from now on, will the width/height limit of 16.000 pixels for an exported image be removed as well? And will the colour channels be upgraded from 8bit/channel to 16 bit/channel?

[Fred C]

What Fred said...+1 Please!
Other Fred

[Fred vanderZee]

I have two questions: since you only offer 64-bit versions from now on, will the width/height limit of 16.000 pixels for an exported image be removed as well? And will the colour channels be upgraded from 8bit/channel to 16 bit/channel?

The maximum export size of an image is exactly 16.383 pixels.
So I had a little fun with numbers: taking a signed 16 bit integer and turning it into binary you get [0]111 1111 1111 1111 (the [0] is the sign bit, decimal number is 32.767).
Now use the second leftmost bit as a signal bit as well, so you don't use it in calculating integers: you get [00]11 1111 1111 1111. The decimal value is (drum roll)... 16.383! Coincidence? I think not.

So doing this for a 64 bit number, we would get [00]11 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111, which is 4.611.686.018.427.387.904 pixels.
To be honest, I would settle for the 32 bit version with the 2 signal bits. 2^30 = 1.073.741.824 pixels/height for an image would be quite OK for me. In 16bit/channel of course

[Rob-Xar]

I believe the image size is a limitation with gdraw but unfortunately I don't know the specifics of it. I can definitely put it in as a improvement request to developers though.

Thanks
Rob

[gwpriester]

And 16-bit color support, Rob.

[Fred vanderZee]

I believe the image size is a limitation with gdraw but unfortunately I don't know the specifics of it. I can definitely put it in as a improvement request to developers though.

Thanks
Rob

Thanks, Rob!