Re: Placing my request for the next version of Extreme
You are most welcome, Dr. Why. We really are a friendly and helpful bunch here at TG.
If you've got an image you've created and would like to show it off we'd be more than happy to take a look. It doesn't even have to be a finished drawing, a WIP is more than acceptable. If you want to post or see what others are currently working on why not check out the Stop & Post August 2009 thread.
Cheers,
HayTay
Re: Placing my request for the next version of Extreme
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Doctor Why
I'm fascinated by the amount of invective contained in the above posts.
If you re-read your original post, you'll see that it set the tone for most of the responses.
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Silly me, I thought that features in simple programs were attainable in more sophisticated programs.
It's about like features for like applications. e.g. You don't expect Word to allow you to model 3D characters, because it's not a 3D animation package. Similarly, Xara is a vector drawing application, so you don't expect features from a pixel pusher like Paint.
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This forum seems to be more about abuse than assistance, and although I could say that I am making earnest attempts to learn this stuff, I am asking for things that I know about and if it's covered by things that I don't know about, perhaps we could explore that path.
Then perhaps you should have asked for explanations, instead of posting inflammatory declarations like "I can't believe that there isn't a really good eraser in Xara. What, nobody ever has to erase anything?" and my favourite, "I will expect these improvements".
Of course, the simple answer to the question in the first quote is "no", because with a vector drawing application like Xara, if you make a mistake you can fix it by moving vertices around or changing the properties of the stroke that is not right or by dozens of other methods. Combustion has had an eraser tool since v1.0 in 2000 and I can guarantee you 100% that I have never used it even once, because it's not relevant to vector drawing.
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Taking an image to Paint to erase a couple of screwheads worked great. What is the analog in Xara?
See, isn't that a much better way to get help?
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Here's something I can share with you: I'm on a lot of forums and the reactions here on this one are not real normal.
Pish-tosh! Every forum I have ever been a regular on will react in exactly the same way when someone comes in the way you did. This forum is actually much tamer than many others I spend time on regularly. Much tamer. I can only imagine you spend time on crochet and knitting forums, perhaps? Because on music or car forums, you get hammered way harder than that.
Re: Placing my request for the next version of Extreme
I do believe Doctor Why has got the message, further reactions are unnecessary.
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