Ah yes. Thank you, browj2!
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Ah yes. Thank you, browj2!
the shape painter tool with fixed nib size is seriously cool for my sort of freehand cartoon line art, I am so pleased
and has been said, for freehand work at least the response of the program seems a whole lot better
I note that the H toggle that used to be in ver 8 [shape builder tool] is now not present in ver 11 shape painter tool; the nodes are now not highlighted by default which makes sense to me, I could never see the reason for that in this tool
plus the enable/disable sketch mode button is still available for this tool [but needs to be activated in the registry]
:-bd
Yes Handrawn I thinks it's great as well. If you have a Wacom try it with that cos it's now pressure sensitive, you can use the pressure recording, it works a treat, but go big with your drawing as it gets a bit jittery with small drawings when using the nib.
its the fixed nib size that is the deal maker - right up to the release of p&g11 I was banging the drum for this - being able to draw directly as shape and zoom in and out whilst drawing is such a time saver
as for drawing big - yes I tend to do that :)
Hi jvila,
Your client has to 'Buy' access but it is free: http://www.xara.com/cloud-xara/access/
Yes, every 1 month anniversary Xara will try to connect to the activation server to see if that computer is still valid. You can have it offline for periods in-between though so if your brave enough to take your laptop on holiday and work for example :)
Yea sorry my bad, I thought it didn't look right lol
Yeah, well none of us has ever made a typo. :rolleyes: It's good to have you here supporting the product Rob. I suspect things have been hectic and busy.Quote:
Yea sorry my bad, I thought it didn't look right lol
thanks understood
so say I am suddenly called away for a week, 2 days before the one month is up, can I make sure it will be available for the full week offline before I go - I would think I could manually deactivate, then reactivate on the same computer, good for another month, but can you confirm that would actually work..
brill - many thanks :)
We're all grateful to have you Rob!
erm, Rob...Do you know off-hand if there is any leeway on this? That meaning if there isn't an internet connection available when it checks, is there a decent grace period to keep using the software until we can get connected to the internet? Our email software checks every 10 days and gives us a 5 day grace period if we're not connected to the internet when it is scheduled to check. We live way out in the woods and only early last year upgraded from very, very slow dial-up to a very spotty and poor, but a ton faster when it's available, cellular hotspot device that we use for the internet. During the midday hours in the summer we lose all cell signal/internet for several hours. It could possibly suck to have the software check, not find an internet connection and deactivate until the sun starts to set and we regain cell signal. And then if that happens, is it just a simple matter of re-establishing an internet connection and re-starting the software to automatically verify the registration or is it a more drawn out procedure? I was about to upgrade to 11 but now...ionno.....sounds like it could be a big hassle every month :eek:
EDIT: oooffff....i type slow and just read this after i posted the above
i guess i can just do this myself every friday evening just to ensure it doesn't deactivate on me then during an internet down time. :(
(thx @handrawn for pulling this info out of Rob :) sucky workaround but it'll work for me i guess)
:o i feel bad posting two times in a row but after upgrading to DP11 and setting it all back up with my preferences i've run into a little issue. using the bottom part of the touchpad the workspace scrolls left and right like always. but for the life of me, i can't get the right side of my touchpad to scroll the workspace up or down. has worked fine in all of the previous versions out of the box. there's nothing in options>mouse that changes the behavior, didn't see anything in XarReg25, rebooted entire computer. and it works starting up any of the older versions of P&GD. just can't get DP11 to follow suit. any suggestions? thx! :)
Wow...the cloud access for clients says there will be an XDP12 in 2016. I wonder what they will be charging as I see this as a major advantage..............if the cost is right.
@ mikey
I guess you better make sure your touchpad drivers are up to date
I see there is a new mouse 'function' in ver11 UnifiedPointerInput - so maybe something has changed - may be worth contacting xara support if it's causing you problems
thanks for the help. i failed to mention that i did update the driver to no avail. i'm gonna have another go at it later when i get the time. i also saw that in the registry but i've learned not to play with those fields if i'm uncertain exactly what they're for :D
that is probably a good thing unless you are geared up for meaningful system restores
What a crappy scheme. It should simply be activated until I try to over activate it or until I manually deactivate. This is a basterdization of Adobe's CC and a typical perpetual license. At least Adobe gives a grace period.
Not gonna like this if I now upgrade. This is enough to make me think about whether I will or not. I really hope y'all and or Magix Tricks think this through better.
+1 mike
thinking the same as you but for what i need right now it's still the best/cheapest route. in the long run...it wouldn't be the first time i've made the wrong choice and have to start all over again :p
I hope this doesn't sound ignorant. If I upgrade to Xara 11 (local installation), does it phone home when I start it? I don't like the idea of having to be connected to the internet to use software I purchase, and I don't like the idea of having my usage monitored.
I understand why it is necessary to phone home to use the on-line version, but I want to make sure that it doesn't phone home when it's installed on my hard drive and then I use it.
If your connected to the internet then it will check to see if it is still valid (incase you deactivate it through your account online), along with if there is any patches to the program or if the designs gallery has been updated etc.
If your offline though and it can't get through, it checks the local validation, so if you activated or had your validation checked less than 30 days ago then it's happy.
None of the activation checking is intrusive though, it all happens silently in the background.
you have to admit Rob, it's not good for installation on a computer that is never usually connected to the internet, and such do exist - it's as if the assumption, yet again, is that this is a web software program and that using it to draw with only is a sub-set - mike [mwenz] has a point, although I think it is head and shoulders above the previous activation system that was just naff
how about use in a corporate environment where access to the outside world is often strictly limited for many programs?
I don't really have any say in the activation process, but it's main purpose it to give you the ability to activate / deactivate yourself without letting people abuse the system such as activating, putting the computer offline and then deactivating via your account online. I know what you mean though. At least I suppose we're not forcing other stuff *cough simpliclean cough* to be installed as well.
Corporate enviroments (or business licenses i should say) have a slightly different method of running, in that a server has a license manager with a set amount of licenses (say 20) and the client program is installed on 100 machines, but up to 20 can open Xara at any time. They don't have to be connected to the internet to run, only to the server to use a key.
yes, it's a wicked world... and interesting what you say about corporate Rob - thanks
There's not really an original announcement (yet) but on either of the upgrade you do (format and re-install or upgrade from 8.1 or 7) it's going to upset the installation of Xara (I think OS is one of the checks that the security DLL's looks at amongst many other things) and it'll save a lot of hassle in the activation process.
not sure if mentioned before or made clear... but the 30 day period before you can deactivate either computer on the xara website is 30 days after the last activation of the two, not 30 days after the activation of the computer you wish to deactivate if you have activated the other one in the meantime.. well I hope that's clear :)
ermm...no :D
so what you're saying is if i get a 2 new computers and activate the software on one of them before i deactivate it from the first computer that i'm selling i can't activate it on the second new computer until the first two have been activated for 30 days???
purely hypothetical :D but that doesn't seem right. i would think one would be able to deactivate the software from a computer at any time.
heh.
well I tried it - and my deactivate date shifted on the first computer to be in line with 30 days after I activated the second computer [which was activated about 2 weeks after the first]
ok I could have deactivated the first from within the program before I reformatted but I took the opportunity to 'test out' the site reactivation service :)
you can active/deactivate at any time on a working system from within the program - this is only for those times when you can't do that....
I went and reinstalled Windows on my main PC because I just upgraded to SSD. I didn't remember to deactivate XDP before pulling the drive, so I'm running the trial version on both machines now (desktop and tablet). The good news is that I should be able to deactivate both previous installs from the website on the 20th (being 30 days out from when I originally installed XDP11 on both) and then reactivate, and in the meantime the trial is running just fine.
On the plus side, XDP on Windows 10 on an SSD runs *really* fast. Very happy with it.
-- Ben
A Solid State Drive Ron :)
Thanks Eric. Isn't that standard on new computers now?
Moving that way I'd say Ron. Still more expensive than standard hard drives but great for using as your C drive. Loads much faster. I have a 240 Gb SSD as my C drive, with the OS & program files & a 120Gb SSD for my important files and a 500Gb standard drive for less important files and photo's etc. Very pleased with this set up. And very silent :)
Did you build it yourself or did you have it built?
Hi Ron, I bought it as a recon workstation. It only had a 500Gb drive which to be honest was very noisy, so I purchased & fitted a 120 Gb SSD and transferred my OS & program files to it. I soon found I was rapidly running out of space on this 120Gb SSD so bought a 240Gb one and used this as my C drive. Fitting wasn't a problem, the hardest part was reducing the content of the 500Gb drive to below 120Gb to mirror it to the SSD. Not to painful though and well worth the speed increase. The BIOS dosen't load faster, but once past that the OS loads far faster :)
@Egg,
I did almost the same as you, but 256 was not enough so I changed to 512. I use the 256 SSD for rendering/exporting videos. My Documents are now on drive B, just to be different and because Windows was proposing something like W for my other new internal drive. Any idea why the BIOS load takes so long? I have the same problem which wasn't there before, or at least I don't think it was.
@Ron,
We published some tests results about different SSD drives on the Magix Community site a while back, along with a link to a program for testing the speed. I'll hunt it down if you're interested. Loading the OS and programs is much quicker than with a normal drive. As far as I know, it is not a good idea to use an SSD for high read/write operations as it may wear out faster. Someone else here may have better info.
The following might be complete B/S but here's my understanding:Quote:
Any idea why the BIOS load takes so long?
The BIOS is loaded from ROM on the motherboard
This then tells the system where to boot the OS and program files, video cards, sound cards etc, etc from
It's only at this point that the speed of the SSD creates an increase in start-up procedure
Unfortunately the guy that really could answer this question, Steve Ledger, appears to have sadly departed this forum.
To the best of my knowledge there is some truth in this but I can't find a definitive answer on this. One of the main problems I have in this area is "page files". I don't even pretend to understand these. However I've somehow set my PC to write these page files to my standard HD, just to avoid high read/write operations to my SSD as mentioned.Quote:
As far as I know, it is not a good idea to use an SSD for high read/write operations as it may wear out faster
Now occasionally I find that my HD is chugging away, doing these "page files" and as I mentioned earlier my 500Gb disc is Very noisy. I've no solution for this :(
i hate perpetuating the ot in this thread but...
if BIOS is seemingly to load slower, were other drives added to check for boot from prior to booting from the primary drive?
and after BIOS, added software can add to startup times becoming increasingly longer. with software that you rarely use, or don't mind a few seconds longer to start when you do actually use it, could be disabled from the startup menu configured in older win versions thru msconfig or newer versions in task manager
and todays reputable ssd's will last longer than hard drives. using it not only to boot from and store files to, it can really help speed things up if you don't have enough ram and configure a portion of it to be used as ram