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I have just returned to Xara after a long break. Truth is I fell in love with another (the Affinity range from Serif) but decided I needed to reload my old copy of Xara Designer to revisit some of my...

Mine arrived today the printed manual was a nice surprise as I didn't think the upgrade came with a manual :)

Jaws Xtreme

When I installed my CD it gave a newer version number than the download version. On another thread the question was asked if there was any point in installing the CD, seems the answer is yes as the...

As Steve and Bill have already said the font you use must contain the symbols you need. I note from your post you are copying and pasting the formula into Xara, that suggests that the font used in...

face off?

Hi Gary great tutorial I will have a go at it later. I just skipped through it and I noticed the number VIII (8) numeral goes missing part way through the tutorial.

Wouldn't it have been quicker to use the calculator for a simple equation like 450/2400x768 :D

Joking aside Gary I know what you mean about math in the 1950's the only 'calculators' available then...

Mine too, came as a nice surprise. My wife was not too pleased with Xara though as she had me booked to do some gardening but one must get ones priorities right ;)

Create a rectangle with 'square' corners the size you need.
Convert to editable shapes.
Select thepen tool or editor tool and create an extra point each side of the corner you want to round....

A lot of Netbooks run under Linux rather than Windows so this may not be too practical. If you do buy a Netbook which runs under Windows (and has enough storage for the program and enough resources...

When I need to insert a form on to a web page I use the coffeecup software form designer, this produces superb forms and can easily be inserted into a Xara generated web page via a placeholder. One...

Select the text you want to have as a link using the text tool and dragging over the word(s) then right click, select web properties and select link to page. Choose the page you want to link to. Job...

Brings out the animal in me

I downloaded your file and got the same result as you. Further checking showed that the text has a link applied to it (page1) Remove the link and the pip works correctly so the problem is related to...

I get the same as you Egg, in IE the buttons are active and link to other pages but in Firefox the mouseover has no effect and clicking on the buttons has no effect.

When you created your web pages did you create the all within a single file in Xara or did you make each page as a separate file? If they were created within a single Xara file selecting them should...

It sounds like the font used does not support the © character which is strange as you say you used Arial which does support it. I have generated web pages with Xara using the Arial font and they have...

How about making the placeholder 99% transparent and in your animation copy the last frame and make all the elements 99% transparent. I have just tested this out and it seems to do what I think you...

Try running the installation as administrator

Great tutorial, thanks Gary

Create your text logo the simply export it as a transparent .png file, job done :)

What a great idea, thanks Frances

You can use wingdings and other dingbat fonts to give you a wide variety of shapes.

If I need to put forms on a web page I use the coffeecup web form builder which is simplicity itself to use http://www.coffeecup.com/form-builder/ If you are having the completed forms emailed you...