Re: Xara X1 vs. Xara Xtreme
Thanks Neil :-)
I've tried it a few more times glenngosack, I'm sure it is a bug. Making the text bold makes no difference, I needn't have included that step. Nor does cutting words before or after the recoloured text - cutting just the text itself forces the crash. Picking a set colour doesn't crash, it's using the eye dropper to set the colour which seems to make it happen.
Re: Xara X1 vs. Xara Xtreme
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Originally Posted by glenngosack
Just tried your instructions three times, and Xtreme didn't crash.. was able to Ctl-X and paste with no problem.
Same here.
Glen
Re: Xara X1 vs. Xara Xtreme
Hi,everyone! I'm new to Xara,and need a bit of help.I downloaded xaraextreme in December,and just got my manual and cds today.I see on the program disc that here are movies,clipart etc.I assimue I got all this stuff when I downloaded,right?There is a second disc-xara zone-do I install that as well,or is all that in there,too?Thanks!
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Could someone try this before I send it in an email to Xhris's bug reporting address?
Xtreme has always crashed on me at what seemed like random events and I've never been able to reproduce my steps. Today I think I have found one of the crash prompts: if you colour a word in a text block using the colour picker and then cut a selection of the sentence to the clipboard, Xtreme crashes with the error "Access violation exception at offset 0x000C3727".
(While I was taking the screenshots (and pasting them into X1), the "updating clipboard" bug hit me again - that one has been around for years but I've never been able to find the trigger for that. It requires any flavour of X1/Xtreme to be closed and re-opened before it can "see" new contents of the Windows clipboard. It hits quite often when producing documents with lots of screenshots, Alt+PrntScrn takes a screenshot and places it onto the clipboard but when the bug bites, Xara can't see anything new on the clipboard until it is restarted.)
Model bug report (take ages don’t they). And you justified your earlier point. But at least that one will be neutralised. For new bugs to occur in old features, there must have been some substantial under-the-hood changes for Xtreme’s release. With time, all these new ones will be filtered out. I can appreciate your point of wanting to use X1, but I still prefer to use Xtreme, as I still feel it is more stable for what I use it for. There is still one other crash-causing bug in Xtreme that annoys me, but the good thing about knowing how to cause crash bugs is that you know how to avoid them until they’re patched.
And yes the non-updating clipboard is still a pain. One method I found (and have reported) that triggers it involves both X1 and Xtreme being open simultaneously. So avoiding that situation will reduce the chances of it happening.
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I take it back... I didn't use the eyedropper for color selection the first time I tried it. Just did and boom - crash. - confirmed
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i just tried it and thought for sure it wouldn't crash on me because i am using a multi-clipboard (which i LOVE - M8 MultiClipboard) BUT IT DID CRASH!!!
Re: Xara X1 vs. Xara Xtreme
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Originally Posted by glenngosack
I take it back... I didn't use the eyedropper for color selection the first time I tried it. Just did and boom - crash. - confirmed
Same here!
Glen
(Maybe the similarity between two of us here has to do with being named Glen[n] :o)
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and I guess the number of n's doesn't make a difference.
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no, the number of ns certainly doesn't matter because i spell Glenn like this:
Bob
hahahahahaha
Re: Xara X1 vs. Xara Xtreme
I'm with Daniel on this issue.
I use X1 99.5% of the time over Xtreme. Which comes in handy for providing AI folks the vectors they need. Xtreme does a very good job converting XaraX vectors to WMF's & AI files. Saves about 50% on effort per conversion.
For my work though, the CMYK printing option is manditory, I've stated this many times before (a broken record for sure).
I can live without spots, but CMYK is a must have. If Xtreme had it, I'd be using it more, but for now extreme works for the PDF & AI conversions. It compliments X1 quite well.
My hope is that one day we'll see a Print module upgrade that takes advantage of the Open source available to Xtreme. Till then, I'll stick with X1.
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Kudo's to everyone involved with the Xtreme manual. Very well done & worth the wait. ;)
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