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they are majoring on web design and office document DTP at the moment, witness the brand new 16.1 release - much needed improvements to tables and to font creation which is all to the good... but...

very true, i wish you and yours all the best rob

legacy can mean depricated... [not the same as discarded]... but it can also mean 'the old way of doing things' and in many instances the old way and the new way can procede together...

can I just...

lots of things can make sense, even some that are perverse in nature

i am not a fan of the sort of design that is the equivalent of painting-by-numbers which is where i perceive xara's current...

I use and interface with a whole raft of software Rob - no release is ever perfect, but rarely do I see software releases so rough around the edges as I do with Xara time and time again

I'll...

so it worked in wd15 but not in wd16 - then I rest my case... xara's priorities [in my opinion] are elsewhere... either that or they have grown 'careless'

put back in in ver 15.1 of XDP .then.. as far as web designer goes I don't know it was ever there as I said...

I equate the approach as - our software is not really meant to do this [squish] unless you are one of those designers who use bitmaps that are not photographs, or who 'distort' photographs before...

could be web designer dosn't do this - we had to 'make noise' to get it reinstated in xdp and xp&g when it was ommitted in ver 15.0 - xara's philosophy of making design for web and office documents...

so nicely put Mr G ;)

you don't need to use alt if you are in the select tool with smart transform disabled and show selection bounds handles enabled, it just does it like it always did... at least it does in my ver...

I think you need to be in selector tool also [and not photo tool]