hi ernie, your art work is magnificent

if you draw with the shape painter tool you get shapes, not lines, often this is not what is required, but yes, you can get excellent results when it is

all lines are textured strokes - what you say does not really address the issue that michael is having, which is that the pressure profile ['stroke shape' on the fly] is not profiled correctly

EDIT - I am assuming here that when michael draws a pressure profiled line it is not possible for him to get anywhere near the width set on the infobar, which would be the maximum achieveable for maximum pressure; it should not be that difficult to achieve, unless settings in wacom or other software are overiding xara, as mentioned before...

if the drivers are wrong that too might be a factor; the xara freehand drawing tool is more than 20 years old, a lot has changed