Strange behaviour of using symbols (Font Awesome) in Xara Designer Pro X 12.8.1.50843

Hello,

I have a strange behaviour when using symbols (Font Awesome) in Xara Designer Pro X 12.8.1.50843: When I open menue -> insert -> symbols the pop-up window occurs, but there the first half (50%) of all symbols are not viewable (e.g. all "brands" and more...). If I then scroll down, the other half part below is complete "normal" in black displayed. The "unviewable" I can normal select and insert in the colour & size I do pre define. I can also use the search box (search by keywords) and they are selected, but some not viewed then also in the search results. But I can insert all of them who are selected (it shows 0, 1 or 5 items found e.g.).

Any idea what this is? It is from beginning and as I remember, it was in my previous version of Designer Pro (X 11) also same. But NOT in earlier versions before.
So final I can use this function symbols, but not comfortable. I must sometimes insert them by "trial & error" and delete those symbols what I do not want ;))

Thanks for any help.

TomTom

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Hmm? Does not sound right.

Have you tried rebooting? Also one thing to always try first is close the problem, right click on the program icon and select Run as Administrator.

This often solves mystery problems. You only have to do this once and it will work or it will not work.

Hello,

thanks for your help. No, it is all time same. No rebooting or starting xara new did help with this. Did also some forum search read this and tried start XD Pro as administrator just this evening. Did not help also.

TomTom

Just tried and the catalogue search is garbage. Typed in Ball & got nothing. Typed in Bat and got 6 icons for batteries and one for a bath. Whale supply's no results & fish supplied a circle !!!!

I just went to Symbols and all are there. So I am not sure what is happening.

Something else you can try, go to Window > Control Bars and Press Reset.

But, be aware that this resets the program to the original settings. If you have any custom button bars, they will have to be recreated. And if you have a preferred work space, then configure a page with all the settings you like and File > Save as Template.

Then press Reset.

Okay Gary did that. No change.

Closed Xara & restarted it. No change. See video - no Audio.

No doubt if I reboot my machine this will fix the issue but why?

Okay, update. I rebooted my computer, reopened Xara Designer and did exactly the same searches with exactly the same results.

Can anyone else replicate this please?

Egg, same results here. Seems the search function only checks the names of the symbols and only compares with the start of each word.
For example if you hover over the circle that is shown when you searched for "fish" you can see it is named "Panorama Fish Eye".
So I guess you need to know the name of the symbol you are looking for.

This is unrelated but I was working on some stereograms the last few days using a multi-page template I designed and strange things were happening with the display. Some images were disappearing but not reappearing when I pressed Shift Ctrl T. But then if I went to wire-frame and back they were there again. And then sometimes, only half the image displayed.

Deleting a page deleted the wrong page even though the page I wanted to deleted was selected and the corner brackets displayed.

Might have been a corrupt document, just a bad day, or late effects of early drug use.

I just opened the document and it is still happening. I'll experiment and add to a new thread. (Sorry to disrupt here)

Unless I am missing something, I just opened the Symbols dialog and keyed in several searches without a hitch.

If you examine the file behind the Symbols pop-up, you will find it is making 18 additional file calls for CSS and Javascript (http://downloadsv12.xara.com/web/cha...character.html).
I believe the Xara Desktop application is failing to refresh these properly and if the download sequence falters, you end up with missing displays.
it is also bad in the main Desktop application as some of the furniture fails to be rendered and you get white artefacts glaring out at you.

The page design has each symbol with its Title that will appear on a symbol roll-over and is used in the Search box.
Xara has also included the data-unicode parameter but fails to allow a search on that.
Xara could have included a right-click "Find similar" or proper Wildcarding to allow intelligent searching, but there you go, that's Xara.

Until those will the problem raise it back to Xara, all you can do it try pressing Ctrl+F5, F5 or Ctrl+Shift+T when the Symbol window has focus to force a refresh or redraw.

You can also use http://downloadsv12.xara.com/web/cha...character.html to identify the actual symbol you are after and then type its Title into the Symbol search box.
Perhaps the searched symbols will then display.

Acorn

Hello,

in my case, where it is only lower 50% of the symbols displayed it does not help. The pop-up window refresh but again half amount of symbols is still not displayed :-( Possible, that this is a firewall / antivirus problem what eventualy blocks that external call?

TomTom

Acorn - This sounds strangely like the problem I was having with the disappearing image.

Hello,

I think all this things (symbols, design gallery, templates, signs, graphics...) seems to come now from out the cloud. In previous versions this all was installed on the local machine (DVD content). So may bee this is one reason. My problem with the symbols is not fixed. But I did bookmark me http://downloadsv12.xara.com/web/cha...character.html to identify the actual symbols more easy. So this was a good tip. Thanks.

TomTom

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Originally Posted by TomTom66

Hello,
I think all this things (symbols, design gallery, templates, signs, graphics...) seems to come now from out the cloud. In previous versions this all was installed on the local machine (DVD content). So may bee this is one reason. My problem with the symbols is not fixed. But I did bookmark me http://downloadsv12.xara.com/web/cha...character.html to identify the actual symbols more easy. So this was a good tip. Thanks.
TomTom

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TomTom, when you know the Title of a symbol, if you were to use that detail in the Search Box, does the search result show the symbol or is it still invisible?

Acorn

Hello, Acorn,

yes, it is found, but still invisible. If you - for example - search for "heart" it shows "5 items" found, but unvisable. You can select each invisible and insert ist. This works, but you do not see which you insert from the search results.

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Originally Posted by TomTom66

Hello, Acorn,
yes, it is found, but still invisible. If you - for example - search for "heart" it shows "5 items" found, but unvisable. You can select each invisible and insert ist. This works, but you do not see which you insert from the search results.

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Pity,
Acorn

would using a fontawesome cheetsheet help? This one is fontawesome free cheetsheet.

https://fontawesome.com/cheatsheet?from=io#use