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I have problems when I use the painter tool, when I resize the whole drawing it changes completely, I'm attaching the xar file and a jpg to show the problem.
As far as I can see painter father does not adjust according to resizing it stays the same as original.
Thanks in advance.
I see the problem in your file, but not one I create.
Mike,
Create a circle, inside paint something using the shape panter tool with 150 in softness, and then resize the whole drawing.
LEt me know what oc
I did.
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The feathering region can't increase beyond 1.32 cm. If you upscale, you'll find the feathering of the red shape to be 1.32 cm, just like the original.
Funny thing is, if you upscale, then downscale again, the feathering region decreases. This is logical, I guess. But if you upscale and then use the Undo function, the feathering decreases as well. This is definately a bug.
As a workaround, you could replace the feathering of the red shape with an elliptical transparency. This gives (more or less) the same result, but is scalable.
Frans
Good find Frans.
Frans,
Thank you very much for your help, I can not use elliptical transparency because the original drawing is really tooooo complex and it will imply to redoing all the job.
I had used Xara many years from version 5 to 11 and I am starting to get tired with Xara bugs, I suffer a lot of hangs and missbehaviours, it is really a pitty because I've already have a lot of skill using it and I don't want to spend a lot of time learning a new software, but every time I want to use it something happens, this one is one of the several errors.
Anyway, I sent a ticket to xara expecting they could help me because I need to send the drawing to customer.
Best regards and thank you very much.
One can also use the feather instead of the softness on the resulting shape.
But in Javier's example, the red centre and the black circle haven't scaled proportionally regardless of the feathering ... or is that not relevant to the issue ...
I believe that is the issue, Keith.
It doesn't happen here so I am uncertain what it causing the odd behavior on that file.
I can replicate that Mike. A 200 softness creates a 40 px feathering. The maximum feathering is 50px, so resizing to a big amount looses definition.
Javier, have you considered creating a large dpi bitmap as an alternative?
Egg,
That is what I am going to do to try to solve the problem in part, but If I need to rescale parts of the drawing I will be in problems, the same occurs when I have to create a huge image, I will loose resolution.
The client asks me to do it in vector to be able to resize it to any size without loosing resolution, and I have to send him the xar file and he/she is going to change size.
I had experienced this kind of things with some drawings with lots of clipviews and feathering, everytime I wanted to convert the whole drawing to editable shapes the job became a completely mess, now I think that it is the same cause the origin of that matter.
Unfortunately I use a lot of clipviews due to the lack of a tool to paint inside a shape boundaries, I think that should be very in handy, clipviews is another thing not well resolved in xara I've reported them some clipview issues.
I learnt I will have to draw always big to avoid resizing problem, I hope not to face new problems doing it that way.
Thank you very much for your help, you make the difference.
Best regards.
jvila, i have been messing around with this and did what you said and like mwenz I also could not recreate the problem. I have had times in 6h4 past where one object wold resize bit not both, that was not the case here. I thought perhaps both objects were not selected or grouping both might help but not so. Sp I am still in the dark. Sorry
Larry, thank you very much for trying hard to help