Some of my Whinges

[gwpriester]

If I might enter one of my long time requests. Independent left and right pages. This is so important when laying out a book where the left hand pages and right hand pages have different gutter and outside margin spacing.

Right now if I make any modification to a text column let's say on a right hand page — move the text area to the right a bit, Xara wants to apply the change to both pages. If left and right pages were independent then the change could be made to only right or left hand pages.

[Acorn]

If I might enter one of my long time requests. Independent left and right pages. This is so important when laying out a book where the left hand pages and right hand pages have different gutter and outside margin spacing.
Right now if I make any modification to a text column let's say on a right hand page — move the text area to the right a bit, Xara wants to apply the change to both pages. If left and right pages were independent then the change could be made to only right or left hand pages.

Gary, I agreed. I made passing lip-service to this in mentioning the page numbering position.

My solution has been a repeating central gutter that repels text under on both left and right pages.
This can be split in two and outer gutters can also be used. Overall, you have total control of the layout.

Acorn

[handrawn]

whinges? well...

if xara were to fix the wobble that the freehand tool has when using a ]wacom] pen I would be forever grateful

no other vector program I have / know of does this; it is as if xara is trying to guess in advance where you want to go, like a puppy round your ankles it just gets in the way when you re trying to draw

[gwpriester]

My solution has been a repeating central gutter that repels text under on both left and right pages.
This can be split in two and outer gutters can also be used. Overall, you have total control of the layout.

Brilliant. But there should not have to be a work-around. But that is definitely a good solution.