Xara Designer Pro X9 Released

[Big Frank]

EDIT: Oh! It's OK. It's called 'Fx' now.
But, not available on its own. Got to put up with the flyout.
Arrgghhhh to that enhancement.

alt click on any button to move it elsewhere

[Rik]

alt click on any button to move it elsewhere

Thanks Big Frank.
Why didn't I think of that?!
Actually, I think I've tried that before and it didn't work. And that's why I probably didn't try that this time.
Maybe I'm mistaken.

In which case: Xara, I take it all back.

[gwpriester]

Or Window > Control Bars > Button Palette. You can (hold down the Alt key) and drag and drop the tools anywhere you want and you can create your own custom button bar, something I have done for each version of the product.

[gwpriester]

As far as I can tell, DPX 9 doesn't add anything new for me on the photo tools or design tools side. But what a great 'Swiss Army knife' program for Xara-Users making websites and doing printed work!

@Jon Not so. The Regions and Mask Tool is brand new. And there are 11 new photo filters that work with both 32 & 64 bit versions. http://xaraxone.magix.net/XDPX9FL/photo-graphics.htm

And the Photo Heal Tool which Frank is a lot more sophisticated than the Magic Erase Tool.

And Background Erase, although a bit more labor intensive is so much better than the Select/Replace Tool.

[Big Frank]

And the Photo Heal Tool which Frank is a lot more sophisticated than the Magic Erase Tool

just been testing that and haven't found this to be the case with the photo needing the healing touch (v dirty lens)
but i'm not here to bash xara so won't go into detail here
however ,it's clear xara haven't taken much if any notice of the dear xara forum
nobody to my recollection asked for a regions and masks tool a photo heal tool or a background erase tool
but we got them anyway
and got none of things we asked for
genuine usability ehancements for those of us who use the app for drawing sketching designing illustrating
maybe better just to remove the dear xara forum

[Rik]

Or Window > Control Bars > Button Palette. You can (hold down the Alt key) and drag and drop the tools anywhere you want and you can create your own custom button bar, something I have done for each version of the product.

I've been doing that for some time, Gary.
But, I hadn't realised that you can actually drag a tool from the 'flyout' itself.

[gwpriester]

Yes, you can.

@pauland +1

[mwenz]

Question.

Has Xara fixed that maddening "auto-resize" of the page and layout gallery (all of the galleries, actually) that appeared in XDP8? You know, one sizes it how they want it, switch to another drawing and it changes to a horrible width, resize it, switch back to the first drawing and it happens again. There are other triggers as well.

Should have had a fix for version 8 before this version came out...

Mike

[Big Frank]

no, it's still the same

[mwenz]

Thanks, Frank.

Mike