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I downloaded this PDF:
http://www.unison.org.uk/acrobat/B1016.pdf
to fill in for my wife.
Imports in without any problems. Made a new layer and added the appropriate text, saved the XAR and then went to export it as a PDF at which point the world stopped and XXP locked up.
I know it's a pretty lame use for XXP but it's actually very useful for filling in this sort of thing.
Is it me (my machine) or does it happen for everyone? Any help appreciated.
Hi Woody
seems to be something in there xara dosnt like - think its to do with clip-view interpretations but thats a guess - I got the error shown below
if this is simply to fill out and print - if you make a high resolution bitmap copy of the form on a separate layer, and delete the imported layers, should be ok?
sorry if thats obvious ;)
Downloaded easily with newer version of Xpro? Saved as Xara file for you, hope you can open it.
Hi Albacore
Still can't get it to export as pdf - but I'm using default pdf/x settings - is that right?
Thanks folks, eventually I printed out the XAR but I have had limited success with PDF Import/Export... sometimes it just doesn't do what it says on the box but this may be the fault of other applications generated PDF's.
Generating work in XXP and exporting as PDF works very well.
Holy crap, this caused some serious errors on my computer. When exporting the imported PDF, my computer froze solid, and I had to forcefully restart with the power button! I wouldn't recommend trying this one unless you've saved everything.
Same here. No error, just hung.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xhris
Vista Ultimate
2.8 GHz Pentium D
1 GByte RAM
So which one of you fine fellows popped a note off to charles and crew about this one?:rolleyes:
Me obviously ;)
But I'm sure they also read these forums even if I hadn't.
This is not a bug or a problem it is just the known problem the way text is handled in PDF. If you convert all the text to shapes then group the mess which is left, then make a new layer for your text which you want to add because you are using the form as a template everything is fine and you can export the file again as PDF. Its two problems in one here, firstly the way Adobe handles fonts and the way you are asking a vector programme to do the work of DTP one, look at the way InDesign handled PDF's until version CS2, it treated PDF's as bitmaps.
Essentially all I did was to add a few new text boxes in another layer though, that's not really asking it to be a DTP program. Having said that the import is not exactly as the PDF original appears on screen as some fonts were substituted.
I've just pulled the PDF into Serif Pageplus X2, made a new layer and put in some text, saved and exported as new PDF and it works faultlessly. I'm not a rocket scientist, far from it, but what's the difference between adding adding some text in a new layer in XXP and doing the same in X2?
Still think you are being unfair to Xpro as you used a DTP programme to do your work which was the point I was trying to make. I use Illustrator on a daily basis and even using that programme you can't edit the text very much as each word is treated as an object and you would have thought that Adobe would get that import right.
I'd use XXP to do the washing up if I thought I could get it to do it... love the program! However.... to level the playing field, I tried the same with Drawplus 8 and it worked fine!
It's going to be interesting to see what Serif's Drawplus X2 debuts like in the near future. I have to use DP8 in school for teaching. At BETT last year, I had a long chat with Patrick O'Connor, their software production manager, and he was very much on the ball when it came to Xara... his knowledge of the product was spot on, so DPX2 could be interesting.