Hehe. I guess the original is intentionally not-lined-up. But as you said, so is yours. And don't take my constant complaining too seriously ;-)

And hell, yes, the splash I designed for DTPBlender (pretty similar to Xara before I even knew Xara ;-)) a few years ago was probably worse

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