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@bwood - Thanks for the tip, much appreciated

Thanks for your response. I guess I will have to get out of that bad habit of not saving manually.

Hi Guys,

I have been working on a certain document for a few months but did not save it. I had it open in Xara and would update the info every now and again. Whenever I closed Xara and reopened...

in the Security tab if you have none checked in document encryption & permissions password, everything will be greyed out.
Check 40 0r 128 bit and it should work

Thanks a lot Acorn. I really appreciate your assistance.

I used the file you sent and it worked perfectly

Thanks to handrawn and gwpriester as well

Attached is the file sizes as well as the pdf

I've done this. But the file still does not open

I'm using version 16 currently
Attached is what I'm seeing currently

The file does open at times but as a jpeg file. the issue with that is certain letters are missing from the document as well as all lines blocks/grids
Every page has a grey block which can be...

Not sure how to check or do the first 2 suggestions.

How do I check if I have pdf2xar.exe in my installation?

Yes it does. I tried opening the pdf in Illustrator and saving in pdf from Illustrator, but it still does not open in Xara

At times it allows me to open it but the entire pdf is opened as a jpeg file with lots of info and all grids or blocks within the document missing.

Hi Guys,

I'm trying to import a pdf into Xara and getting the following error message:

PDF Import: pdf2xar exit code nonzero

I've never had this problem previously when opening a pdf in Xara

Thanks for the tips. My files are saved so I'm not losing any work. It's just that when Xara is opened, it re opens all the files to an earlier time as untitled.
So I gotta keep clicking don't save...

Thanks for your assistance Acorn, much appreciated. I managed to find a pdf of the design and brought that into Xara and everything worked out.

I need to pick your brain with another issue I'm...

Hi guys,

I did some design work for a customer in 2020. I need to make some changes to the artwork but the file does not want to open.
I tried going into backups to retrieve the file but backup...

Thanks for the help guys.
I used PDF Joiner and it worked like a charm

Hi guys,

I am working on a 100 plus page directory. I've worked with different parts of the directory in separate files. Now I need to create 1 file and save as PDF.
Is it possible to copy and...

Thanks for the help guys.

While waiting I was playing around with some settings and this seems to work.
I adjusted the Space After Paragraph and Line Spacing, I changed the Line Spacing from % to...

Hi Guys,

I am creating a list in Xara Designer Pro. How do I align the text to the lines that I created?
I am copying the text and inserting into a text box but cannot seem to get the text...

That was the problem. Thanks

Hi Guys,

I need some help with the bleed in Xara Designer Pro. Initially when I set the bleed the edge of the design used to go pass the cut lines.
Now the design ends exactly where the cut lines...

Thanks :-bd

Guys thanks for all the help, much appreciated.

Saving the excel file as pdf and then editing in Xara worked the best.