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    Re: Pantone, what is the deal?

    I guess for you pro's, swatches are still needed. Pantone use to do a free online colour picker but it is now behind a pay wall with a "free" trial option.
    Their old version is still listed on the...
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    Re: Lock points

    Quiet a few PCB design packages have free (limited pin count) versions, but usually have no libraries, configuration tables or support and steep learning curves.
    A low cost entry package that has...
  3. Re: Save as and export as ... the file name

    This feeds into one of my pet hates for Windows and software packages that don't "project manage" and let you set the current working directory for the job you are doing.
    When you select "Export...
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    Re: Multiple text rotation question

    Hi Egg. Yes that certainly does help!

    I had not thought of setting up a template of the orientation I need for each strip (I usually find one I've already done then copy and paste between .xar...
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    Re: Multiple text rotation question

    Thanks to everyone that replied.

    @ ss-kalm : I opted for your solution as it is all "happens" with the cursor on the selected item and saves the back and forth to the menu bar and having to type....
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    Re: Multiple text rotation question

    This is an existing design, so the pairs are already there, and they have to line up with pins of connectors that pass through the cut-outs.
    It is the sort of job for a macro, but XDP doesn't have...
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    Multiple text rotation question

    Is it possible to rotate, multiple individual characters about their own axis?

    The only way I know at the moment is to individually select them, insert a 9 before the 0 and enter return.
    In the...
  8. Re: Text Styles between documents question.

    It also works for graphics objects. I had one colour in a file I needed in another.
    Copy the object and paste into the other and the colour attributes come with it.
    Use the colour on the object...
  9. Re: Text Styles between documents question.

    @ Acorn

    Spot on!
    Text attributes come across with the text and get added to the text style menu drop down.

    Interestingly I had two styles I need to come across, but one line of text with one...
  10. Text Styles between documents question.

    I have two documents in a current session.
    One has a text style that I would like to use in another, but does not appear in the pull down menu of both.
    Is it possible to copy one into the other? as...
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    Re: Another Layers question.

    @ handrawn

    Thanks for the pointer to those menu settings.
    Turns out I had "Same layers on all pages in document" ticked.
    When un-ticked I can toggle the eye-ball on one page and the others stay...
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    Another Layers question.

    Is it possible to have the same layer, on different pages, in different display states.

    I design membrane keypad artworks over several pages.

    I need to show a "Mech" layer, on the page that...
  13. Re: Xara pro, i5 vs i7 or Hyperthreading vs non Hyperthreading ?

    For tweaking AutoCAD files you might like to try Draftsight :-
    https://www.3ds.com/products-services/draftsight-cad-software/download-draftsight/
    It used to be free but has gone to paid for in the...
  14. Re: Will we ever have master pages in my lifetime?

    What you never made your own Dongle dangle parallel port ribbon?
    https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQmXix5utOvJwzscD7oe-3SeNNE2r-DAEYd6H3RfsCeLKJqa5j9Sg
  15. Re: Will we ever have master pages in my lifetime?

    Impression was the child of InterWord which came out of Wordwise if I remember correctly.
    Xara came from ArtWorks, but it must have been the same development team. They may have changed names and...
  16. Re: Will we ever have master pages in my lifetime?

    We had it 30 years ago. I think something got lost in translation when ported from RISCOS to Windows :-

    http://www.apdl.org.uk/riscworld/volumes/volume9/issue5/blast20/index.htm

    Master pages...
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    Re: Export SVG is corrupt?

    The only issue I have found with svg export, is that it will fail if the xara file includes a bitmap.
    I guess the clue is in the file extension name, Scalable VECTOR Graphic.
  18. Re: Change size of pasteboard/background area.

    I 122095 that.
  19. Re: Change size of pasteboard/background area.

    WOW, now that is exactly what I have been looking for.
    That deserves "like"ing and "Reputation", but sadly this forum doesn't recognise such responses.

    The setting stays across all pages.
    Not...
  20. Re: Change size of pasteboard/background area.

    That simple. Ah well, you learn something new every day.

    Thanks.
  21. Change size of pasteboard/background area.

    I design my graphics artworks in the context of the mechanical front plates and bezels that they live on.
    The problem I have is that I loose the bottom of the outlines as the go beyond the page edge...
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    Re: Engineering drawing title block

    Search Google images for "Drawing Title blocks" and take your pick.
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    Re: Font question : Outline to Stroke

    Thanks for getting back to me.

    The font I have used is "Swis721 BT" which I had hoped to convert to what I have read on the web is loosely referred to as an "Engraving" single stroke font.
    The...
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    Font question : Outline to Stroke

    Having trawled this forum and picked up on a thread that said someone had accidentally done this, how do you do it, deliberately.

    Using outline fonts, that is what I get when converting them to...
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    Re: Document Info : More info please.

    Thanks for looking into this for me guys.
    To view a CD32 file I use Inkscape 0.48.5-1 which is the 32bit version.
    "hit or miss" has always been the case for me.
    I have found a work around in that...
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