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could be, way back, xara used to have line and fill colour totally separate - then they changed this in their nanny way so that when you draw a line it picks up the same colour as that set for fill,...

thanks rik for confirming that, I have not used scatter brushes in xara for a long time, and so i thought maybe you might have done something I had forgot

for anyone interested, here is a brush...

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but I have to ask, does it persist?

when I do this [following your steps, including convert line to shape], and come to use the brush again it has reset itself to 'named brush colours' -...