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    OpenType Font Variations

    Hi

    What is the status of support in the various Xara products for OpenType Font Variations?
    Will we get a slider to dynamically adjust the weight?
    Is there a tool which can take a font file and...
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    Re: How to print and export transparency

    I've done some research and discovered that AI calls it flattening
    "Flattening divides transparent artwork into vector-based areas and rasterized areas."
    See Illustrator / Printing and saving...
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    Re: How to print and export transparency

    I've just realised I didn't explain myself very well.

    Imagine a circle and a larger rectangle of a different colour on top which completely covers the circle.

    Now make the rectangle 50% flat...
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    Re: How to print and export transparency

    I just used the clipboard (which I think was EMF when I used Paste Special)
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    Re: How to print and export transparency

    Sadly I can't import PDF into Word 2007 or anything else I normally use.

    My question was: what is Illustrator doing to convert the transparency that allows it to be imported into Word?
    And can...
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    Re: Where have the export options gone?

    Thank you -- I can't believe I missed that option!!
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    How to print and export transparency

    Hello

    Reading the Help document it says that transparency in a document is rendered as a bitmap when printing because PostScript can't handle it. This is also the case when exporting to certain...
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    Where have the export options gone?

    Hi

    When I choose the Export option I get a Save dialog box to choose the format and file name, but that's all.
    How do I know whether it is saving the selection, the current page, or the whole...
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    Clone a 'master' object

    Hello

    Is it possible to clone a 'master' object so that when it is altered all the clones are similarly updated?
    (or, rather than a master object, they all update whenever any of the others are...
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    Re: XXP4: Bad utf-8 char handling in XPS import

    I've just imported an XPS but Xara displays the text with no spaces between the words!
  11. Thread: Spyware??

    by xarb
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    Re: Spyware??

    I think you're referring to a firewall, but I was referring to a spyware scan.
  12. Thread: Spyware??

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    Spyware??

    Apparently "C:\Program Files\Xara\Xara Web Designer\UNZDLL.DLL" is spyware according to ZoneAlarm! (Win32.Adware.Starr)

    Is it? Or has something else infected it? Or is it a false alarm?!
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    Re: 4.0.1 patch now available

    Unfortunately the "bug" reported here http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?t=32694 has not been fixed:
    "Clip photo with wiggly shape"
    - draw freehand line on top of photo
    - select both line...
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    Re: 4.0.1 patch now available

    The patch deletes these four files:
    fax2png.exe, fax2tiff.exe,
    jpeg62.dll, libtiff3.dll
    Any particular reason why a patch would delete files?
    Especially the DLLs which I would imagine could be...
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    Re: Clip photo with wiggly shape

    My concern was that the Photo tool is slightly unintuitive, and different to the ClipView, because when you Unclip a photo you don't get back the original two objects.

    Removing a ClipView gives...
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    Clip photo with wiggly shape

    Hi

    I see how I can draw a wiggle shape and use the Clip button in the Photo tool to clip a photo.

    But how do I unclip and restore the wiggly shape in order to edit it? When I press Unclip I...
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    Re: Scaling a named group

    Thanks very much guys!! Esp. to Egg for redrawing it so that it works :-)

    I was working on something bigger but simply couldn't understand why it wouldn't scale. The drawing I attached was just...
  18. Thread: Why the pause?

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    Re: Why the pause?

    I thought, from the subject line, that you meant something like the attached...

    (Preview the animation to see what I mean)

    Ha Ha ;-)
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    Scaling a named group

    Hello

    I'm having trouble scaling a group of objects -- some of the components scale and some don't, and I get tweening errors.

    It's a really simple picture, some identical trees and some...
  20. Thread: Edit all frames

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    Re: Edit all frames

    Sorry I wasn't clear. I thought "Edit all frames" would allow me to edit an object once and the changes would be visible on all frames. At the moment if I change the design of an object I have to...
  21. Thread: Edit all frames

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    Edit all frames

    Hello

    I've just made my first animation, something I thought I'd never be able to do, so thanks to XXPro :-)

    But now I'm finding it rather cumbersome to make changes, so can anyone give some...
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    Not wanting to turn XaraX into bloat-ware, here...

    Not wanting to turn XaraX into bloat-ware, here are my two suggestions for simple enhancements that would allow me to use it more often:

    1) Text handling - if you added Tab Stops, for example, I...
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    Has anyone experienced this problem before? If...

    Has anyone experienced this problem before?

    If I use the colour sampler to sample from a bitmap and use that colour to fill the page behind it then the two blend together on screen.
    But when I...
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    Has anyone experienced this problem before? If...

    Has anyone experienced this problem before?

    If I use the colour sampler to sample from a bitmap and use that colour to fill the page behind it then the two blend together on screen.
    But when I...
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