I really like this program for its simplicity. I'm really pleased Xara made it.
I used it to create a simple site very quickly to show family photos of our recent holiday. In doing so I arranged lots of photos in a scattered-on-the-table look. I found a few things that I thought others might have an opinion about.
1. Photos were about 2MB each. So after about 8 pages the bloated file gave me out of memory errors. Xara help suggestion was to optimize photo (via right click), however while this was good for large photos, it mean that the popup photos I arranged were badly pixilated. In the end I reduced the originals and redid the site (it was quite easy since I could just drag the compacted photos over the originals in XWD). Perhaps optimising could consider the popups in some way?
2. I wanted to give all the photos the same size and border treatments - but I found I really had to do each one individually - would be good to have a style or something simliar to simplify this process.
3. When using the popup photos feature, rotated photos are displayed rotated with white back ground. I'd love an option to display them upright or landscape instead. Would that be possible?
Once again, thanks to Xara for a great program,
Fergus
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