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I fixed your link, I think

site.xara.com/support/docs/webformat/spec/XARFormatDocument.pdf

yes I got there eventually, thanks

along the way I got to https.com, which was confusing :D

capellan - your link is broken....

wix is an export format - it's there in my xdpx15.1 - afaik it's always been there

reading the preview bitmap does not, afaik, require the whole xar to be uncompressed, it is a specific function...

that sounds like very good advice

ok well the horse has probably left the paddock by now never mind the stable door, but the answer to 'the other question' is forward planning - acorn has been sugesting mirroring your files by saving...

figure of speech :p

as when xara says 'smart design made for everyone' ;)

now it is my turn not to understand - these two programs are not at all the same - and if you can do what want in PP and that is what others use .. then why not use it?

let me sumarise all that has been said in words of one syllable

in order for a search program to search a file format:

either the format owner [in this case xara] has to provide a filter/plugin...

fair enough egg, it did cross my mind ;)

sure, no problem

did you get that to work egg ? I just tried it now and no joy, as I would have expected in a xar file - what acorn suggested should work in it's own way I think, but not yet got notebook++ to try it...

:D

I think you have been rummaging in your garage too long egg ;)

if its not ascii based [remember ascii ?] no show...

unencoded here means losing formatting info - right?

these methods may show you what is in the xara file but a bit fiddly for editing puropses... as you say depends how desperate

must look at...

to recognise text within a document a search utility would need to know how it was encoded, otherwise it is just the equivalent of trying to read a foreign language you have never learned, quite...