Custom lines

[Andy B]

More like this than...?

Sorry about my image not working - it should have shown something similar, but with the equal-length "sleepers" equi-spaced. Yes, if you could give me a .xar (and any instructions necessary to get the effect) that would be great.

[handrawn]

if you have an old version of xara that only creates one kind of user defined brush then that will be a scatter brush

[wizard509]

More like this than...?

if you could give me a .xar (and any instructions necessary to get the effect) that would be great.

Andy to whom are you speaking?

[Andy B]

Andy to whom are you speaking?

I was speaking to you, Wizard. I expected the forum platform to nest responses - that it doesn't makes the conversation a little hard to follow. Now I know.

[wizard509]

Andy it's way past my bedtime will get back to you later with a mini xar tutorial.

[handrawn]

andy - you are using an old version of xara and so it might not quite work the same way

you can try approaching the issue the other way round and resize the base graphic [make it smaller presumably ? - it could be a 32bit limitation]

if, in line gallery, you right click on the brush and select copy brush graphic to clipboard it may give you an idea of the base size your program is working at, but you may just have to experiment; make sure you keep your base shape is all vector and grouped

once the brush is made you should be able to resize it for drawing

[Acorn]

Andy, handrawn already provided a XAR.

As far back as XX5, you use would create a cross and with the Brush Tool > Create Brush.

Acorn

[handrawn]

you will find the brush in line gallery > document brushes when you open the xar file

note it will not persist if you save the file again with no instance of the brush in use [ie if its not used in the file somewhere you lose it]