Acorn - installed Xara software: Cloud+/Pro+ and most others back through time (to CC's Artworks). Contact for technical remediation/consultancy for your web designs.
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It is good to have you Rob look over all this stuff. I feel there is new life in Xara now. My beef is the attached. I sometimes work on large website where I leave it for upload and go away from the computer in hope of it finished when I return but I see this screen. I do understand that the information is good to know but it hinders my workflow. Also if at anytime I close Xara it starts again. I would be so happy if this can be fixed. Attachment 129863
Re the drop shadow:
I believe the cause of my problem is that I was forced into bad habits many years ago due to an issue that existed on my computers at that time. Namely opening the Utilities / Options dialogue window taking several seconds loading, so I’d avoid doing so as much as possible.
https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...748#post589748
I prefer not to have a page shadow. Probably through changing page colour incorrectly applying a page shadow as mentioned by Acorn. To avoid having to wait for Options window to open I’d select the page rectangle in the page layer and remove the drop shadow. Unfortunately this way didn’t remove the Show Page Shadow in the Options window, so as soon as the page was resized the shadow would reappear. There appears to be disconnect between the page rectangle and page size.
Strange how bad habits persist. I attach a xar template file which shows this behaviour. My bad, not Xara’s.
Egg
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you are not alone egg - a decade or so ago xara removed bitmap tracer from the work area right click context menu and I hardly ever used anything else in that menu I got out of the habit of using it - these days everytime I do right click to access the relatively recent multiple page view toggle I remind myself that page options is there, but I still automatically use the options menu route - there is even a shortcut to the general options, a file menu route to page options as well.. but hey you can't remember everything, and somethings become embedded; one reason why workflow changes in the UI, if they bring no personal benefit or worse cause disruption, can be hard to adjust to...
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Rob, a long time hate is Curvature. It is tied to the WxH of the initial box.
If you select a curvature control when the Editable items box has Curvature selected and then adjust it, the top Primary curvature ratio is varied, the Stellation curvature ratio is activated and has a fixed value of 0.2.
As you do not have stellation for a box, this ought to be a 'Secondary curvature ratio' so the curvature controls can be made independent, along with a meta-key to lock or unlock this action.
Acorn
Acorn - installed Xara software: Cloud+/Pro+ and most others back through time (to CC's Artworks). Contact for technical remediation/consultancy for your web designs.
When we provide assistance, your responses are valuable as they benefit the community. TG Nuggets you might like. Report faults: Xara Cloud+/Pro+/Magix Legacy; Xara KB & Chat
There should be available toolbar BUTTONS for ALL the COMMANDS. The BUTTON PALETTE has not been updated as much as the program.
For example, there are buttons for EXPORT AS JPG and EXPORT AS PNG but NO EXPORT TO PDF which is together in the menu with the other two. It appears that the button palette has been neglected.
Keith
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There are 10 types of people in this world .... Those who understand binary, and those who don't.
When creating a bitmap copy, the default is always True Color + Alpha. It would be great to have Xara remember the last option you used (in my case 95% True Color) and offer that first.
Gary W. Priester
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For over a decade many of us have relied on XaReg to alter Registry default settings. I wish Xara would support this utility or build the functions into the Utilities menu.
Gary W. Priester
Mr. Moderator Emeritus Dude, Sir
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