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Adding one more deficiency with the new selector handles: it's more difficult to find the center line of shapes. The old selector handles had small black boxes along the sides, small enough to...

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I have a large file containing over 100 business graphics (1 per page). The color line contains an extensive palette that somehow got scrambled. Of course, I can no longer find the colors I...

Wow! Amazing. Many thanks!

I've attached a raster image of a fill that is graduated along a curve (like these arrows). This effect always stumps me. I've tried Linear Fill, Circular, Elliptical, and Conical. Nothing seems to...

I use a color palette with about 200 colors, including tints and shades, all carefully organized in a fixed order for easy access. I recently upgraded to XDP X11. Like it's predecessors, it defaults...

Is there a way to apply transparency to the fill only...to retain a solid black outline? In the past, I have made a clone, applied the transparency to the original shape (fill and line), then made...

Thanks, Gary. What a resource you are!

If I create a text box and group it with a shape, then need to resize the shape as I'm building the org chart, the text resizes. I can select all of the...

Over the years, I've used a combination of Xara and MS Visio for business graphics -- Visio primarily for "boxes and arrows" work given the ease of typing text into any object.

I just spent a few...

My 59-year old eyes mutinied on the dark skin of Designer Pro 6. Thankfully, someone told me how to change the settings back to the original light-gray theme.

If I upgrade to 7 is the same option...

Searching this forum for 'Mac' produced zero hits which is strange because I remember several old threads on a potential Mac version.

Anyway, I have a practical short-term decision to make: I have...

Should you be looking for a way to change the Designer Pro 6 skin back to the Xtreme version 5 (light gray) skin, tech support gave me this instruction:

"You are able to change the skin back to...

Thanks, Egg. That was my hunch, but I didn't want to start manually tracing if there was another way. Really wonderful to have your advice!!

I exported a 3D floor plan from Sketchup at 300 dpi. I imported it onto the "scan" layer of the attached xar file. I then added another layer and used Bitmap Tracer to vectorize the image. At a...

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Thanks again!

Bob, this is great advice. I tried it and many of the problems I get into stem from not "knowing" this.

Egg, is there something you did to turn on all the curve (bezier) handles at once? Or did...

I'd like to get better and faster at hand tracing bitmap shapes. I've attached a bass clef symbol that's part of a current project. I need to turn it into a vector shape. (I don't want to use Bitmap...

I've found three threads asking this same question, so I'm pasting a easy solution I've been using for years. Excuse the references to another thread:

This is a 2007 thread but anyone searching...

I just posted a solution to an identical request on another thread. I'm duplicating it here:

This is a 2007 thread but anyone searching the archives should check out SnagIt -- a perfect answer for...

This is a 2007 thread but anyone searching the archives should check out SnagIt -- a perfect answer for Wizaerd's inquiry. SnagIt ($49.95) is a screen capture tool on steroids from TechSmith, the...

Oh, that's excellent!! I had not figured out that I could select objects from the work area (not from the Gallery thumbnails), then right-click any one of them in the Gallery to move them to current...

Agreed! Copying multiple objects (and having them land on multiple layers) is often how I get mixed up in the first place. I do not get the logic of selecting a current layer, and then having XX...

Wow, that's a nasty piece of news! I typically do not know what layers a bunch of objects are on when I want to move them. However, given your clarification, here's the technique I plan to use (it...

Yes, I have used that method but it has shortcomings as a quick solution. Finding the object you want to move in the Object Gallery is an extra step. And if you have many layers, it can be tricky to...

I have been using v5 for a few weeks now. I'm still struggling with the loss of the Move button in the Layer Gallery for moving objects between layers. What methods are others using to move objects?...

The cartoon accompanied a NY Times column drawing parallel between the Depression and the current mess, so I think the throwback style was intentional.

I just checked out the cartoonist for fun....