Re: What are the Worst features in XPro
The tendency that has grown up as of late for xara to do things 'automatically', such as resizing zoom when importing bitmap, as well as docking and resizing at the same time - ouch!
Both these can be fixed by regedit - but thats a hack and inflexible we really should be able to choose.
Only being able to toggle last zoom is baaaad for me [- especially when I've just had my zoom automatically resized :rolleyes:] .
Zoom history would be nice.
Re: What are the Worst features in XPro
The most annoying issues I have with Xara (that aren't feature requests explicitly) are:
1. Brush not retaining brush colour with each brush stroke - as someone above said: it practically cripples the use of brushes for painting. (related feature request: randomisations palette like MS product has to do subtle random variations)
2. Text tool lacks basic text creation and navigation functionality (via keyboard and mouse features) that Word has (details given elsewhere).
3. Various minor (known to Xara) bugs that affect usability.
4. Poor docking functionality and usability. Inability to reverse docking logic, i.e. have option to have control pressed to dock rather than to dock automatically unless control is held.
5. Rounded rectangle issue (which is now apparently fixed)
6. That it takes AGES to load up a lot of live effects that may be installed. A smart memory of what’s there and only scans for changes would be greatly welcome. It takes tens of seconds for Xara to scan the directories with all the LEs I have, and it’s unbelievably annoying – especially if you were in the middle of something and have to wait for ages.
7. The lack of solid-drawing/resizing when using the quickshape tools.
8. Lack of solid redraw for contours and bevels etc.
9. When exporting images, changing certain settings automatically causes a redraw. For large images, this can take forever to re-preview. E.g., you have a large image being exported, and you move the JPG quality slider a little and before you’ve even released (if you're dragging slowly) it starts to re-preview, taking ages. Then you have to do this again and again until you get the right value. The preview button should be the only way to update the image for long re-preview times, but not for short times.
10. Very outdated looking galleries that remind me of windows 3.1 for some reason. Not modern and slick to navigate (e.g. no multi-layer simultaneous delete in layer gallery).
11. (no auto save)
12. 50 pixel feather limit with non-reversible scaling when this is exceeded
13. Files with lots of pngs take a long time to save (may be unavoidable).
14. No ability to load Xara shortcuts utility from Xtreme.
15. Can’t reorder live effects
16. Inability to disable the auto-zoom-out feature when large pictures are dropped into the document.
17. It can't cure the common cold!
Additional feature request:
1. Reverse stacking order feature – useful for large numbers of objects that you want to have reversed stacking order; you currently have to manually do this all by hand.
This is all that immediately springs to mind.
Re: What are the Worst features in XPro
As has been mentioned before, it can be very time consuming and frustrating not having the ability to select multiple random frames in the animator.
Copy and Paste can really speed up trying to work with 100+ frames but unfortunately, selecting one frame at a time is primitive.
Perhaps gif animation may be on the way out and not a priority but as it is in Xtreme already, can it not be made as easy to use as cheaper animators like ulead gif animator ... for instance?:D
Re: What are the Worst features in XPro
Xhris,
Quote:
17. It can't cure the common cold!
This ones been sorted!
Re: What are the Worst features in XPro
Biggest beef is the frames in anim mode are ass-about-face.
Not that this will ever change back to how, most sensibly, it used to be.
Background frame goes underneath, not on top, right? Grrrr!!!!
Re: What are the Worst features in XPro
- Pressure sensitivity ;
- impossibility to change anything to the brushes components without rebuilding them (only brush settings may be changed) ;
- some line settings are lost when objects are included in brushes : feathering, stroke shapes ... ;
- no warping along strokes.
kindly,
ivan
Re: What are the Worst features in XPro
CMYK color picker!%^*(#??...love the multi page function needs refining though..tao
Re: What are the Worst features in XPro
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Originally Posted by
Intbel
Biggest beef is the frames in anim mode are ass-about-face.
Not that this will ever change back to how, most sensibly, it used to be.
Background frame goes underneath, not on top, right? Grrrr!!!!
I would think the correct frame order would be, left-to-right or top-to-bottom. Personally I can work with it either way but I'm one who prefers the way it is now over the old way.
-Bob.
Re: What are the Worst features in XPro
When creating Flash-stuff:
- the UI to create command in the layer names (ie rotate and accelerations) should be replaced/complemented with other alternatives.
- to move objects along paths instead of moving straight from point A to point B.
Bitmaps:
- A way to resize a bitmap after its resolution. Often I have set the resolution to 300 in Photoshop and when I import image in Xtreme it will be very large at 96 dpi. Instead of trying to guess to what percentage I should resize it ot trying to resize with the handles, it would be great to just insert the prefered dpi and the bitmap would resize after that, ie I would change the 96 dpi of the imported bitmap to 300 and the image would "shrink" on the page. And there could also be a field in the Import dialogue asking for the prefered resolution (like when you import Photoshop files if I don't remember wrong).
Re: What are the Worst features in XPro
The only thing I hate in Extreme, are the Galleries, especially the layer galleries.
I would love a layer gallery like the one in Adobe Fireworks.