Xara Xtreme Pro - other improvements

[Charles Moir]

For existing Xara Xtreme owners here is a list of some of the smaller fixes and improvements in Pro ;

• Name gallery improvements
Improved so that it shows more detail on the fonts used in a document, using the full font name as shown in the font gallery. It also shows variations of a font as a separate selectable font name, as well as the font family (e.g.. “Arial Bold”, “Arial Italic”, “Arial Regular”.) It shows at a glance which fonts have had to be synthesised and which are not installed.
• Improved clipboard compatibility with MS Office and other apps
e.g. You can just copy anything in Xara and paste direct into Outlook and it embeds a JPEG
• Print dialog completely re-designed
• Document Info dialog improved
• Error handling improved so that in the event of a program crash you’ll normally get the chance to continue and save your work.
• Automatic zoom out when importing photos, so the whole image is instantly visible
• New ‘100% zoom’ operation added to zoom toolbar and key short-cut of Ctrl+Shift+1.
• Improved support for using Xtreme with multiple monitors
• Improved support for accented characters, Unicode and non US keyboards
• Frame (animation) gallery order reversed, so it now shows first frame at the top
• Line width now shown in pix if the page unit is Pix
• You can now set the coordinates origin to top left corner increasing downwards.
• The main toolbar should automatically show small icons on small screens
Dragging a file onto the title bar no longer opens MDI windows
• Copy / Paste attributes on text now works more reliably. You can more easily create 'text styles' using small snippets of text.
• The line width shows widths in pixels if your page units are pixels (the list of widths will be improved before the final release)
• New option in Grid & Ruler to allow the ruler origin to be top left and coordinate values to increase downwards
And the most significant feature improvements of the lot:
• The caret in the text tool now blinks !

Plus there have been dozens of smaller fixes.

As some of you may realise, most of these smaller improvements have been requested on the TalkGraphics forums. For the day-to-day user they are significant improvements.

[Big Frank]

YES YES YES HOLY MOTHER OF KAZAN YES!!!!

sorry

got carried away

[mikalele]

That sounds all really good!

The dozens of smaller fixes... do they include the "two-screens-with-different-resolutions-bug"?

[Egg Bramhill]

Here's one change I've noticed that's not mentioned above is that sizes in Xtreme are now maintained on export as .swf to Flash. I think this will save hours of work for those who use Flash.

[AntonyF]

Originally Posted by mikalele

The dozens of smaller fixes... do they include the "two-screens-with-different-resolutions-bug"?

Yes. You brought it up recently in the forum, so your post reminded me to chase it up. As a two-screen user I was a proponent of getting this one fixed.

[mikalele]

YES! Thank you Xara Team!

[Xhris]

Originally Posted by Charles Moir

• Improved clipboard compatibility with MS Office and other apps
e.g. You can just copy anything in Xara and paste direct into Outlook and it embeds a JPEG

I noticed in Word, you can also double click pasted objects to load Xara and edit the shape. The shape updates automatically in Word on closing Xara. Shame I didn't have this a couple of months ago - it would have saved me hours of exporting.

Originally Posted by Charles Moir

• Error handling improved so that in the event of a program crash you’ll normally get the chance to continue and save your work.

This is the best change of all - no more lost work! I can crash it for fun now.

Originally Posted by Charles Moir

• You can now set the coordinates origin to top left corner increasing downwards.
• New option in Grid & Ruler to allow the ruler origin to be top left and coordinate values to increase downwards

This should please a few people!

[pauland]

Nice job Xara - relieved to see that the feet are out of the mud!

[Odat]

Originally Posted by Charles Moir

• You can now set the coordinates origin to top left corner increasing downwards.

Unfortuntely I don't have a windows computer handy, so I can't check this myself, but does this change apply to the main page co-ordinates and the way that invidivual objects are represented? i.e. with this turned on is the X/Y location of an object on the page also represented by it's top-left corner?

I would imagine that it would be the case, but before I sign the check to get the new version of Xara (sight unseen), I'd like to be sure.

[Soquili]

Odat,

It works as you describe. Set the origin to the upper left corner and the Y values to increase going down.

The top left corner of the object is the location coordinates.