you want a new vector tool rather than a rehash ?

[handrawn]

what about this....

you have a raster drawing vectorised and lo ! look at all those nodes



if you want to bow out the cheek to make the face fatter, it's going to be a pita in xara which only allows you to either bow out between to adjacent nodes, or move nodes as a block

what if you could switch to a tool that would allow you to treat this object as a line, even though it is a shape



you could then bow it just like you could if it were a line, without having mess with all those nodes



icing on the cake: you can smooth this centreline adding and removing nodes so you can adjust easily

Harmony does this


i don't think Xara ever will... it has left real graphic drawing behind....

it does not have to be a vectorised raster of course - the ability to treat a shape as a line is pretty powerful all round