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I would say whether you call these "blending modes" or "transparency types" is simply a matter of terminology. They are all mathematical and/or logical processes at the pixel level for generating a...

Thanks for the info Su. With the "non editable" nature of moulds anyway this is a pretty severe limitation.

Moulds feel to me like a feature of Xara that could do with a rewrite+update. Something...

I was aiming to follow the mini-tutorial on how t draw a car tyre shown in post number 8 in this thread.

This uses a mould to shape the tread. Unfortunately moulds are one of the few "opaque"...

I have exactly the same problem. I only noticed this happening after I defined a custom brush in the document, from then on all the object-based brushes (anything other than the solid thick line...

Increasingly, image editing applcaitions seem to be adopting at least a subset of the Photoshop set of transparency / overlay types as a standard.

In some cases this is probably just a name...

Ah got it.

I was misunderstanding the way to drive the mask feature (I've only just installed V6 and i'm still learning my way around).

I had clearly assumed that the active mask became...

Note- I thought I posted this yesterday but now I can't find the thread. If this turns out to be a duplicate my apologies, but i'm interested to know the answer, and the first copy of the question...

LibreOffice isn't actually a rename of OpenOffice, it's a "fork". It's complicated but roughly speaking-

* Once there was a low cost office suite with MS Office import/export filters called...

As the previous poster mentioned, Visio is probably the best known example these days, although Visio implements some functions I wouldn't see as mandatory (like intelligent rerouting of connectors,...

Here is a subject that I know has been discused in the past, but i'm surprised to see doesn't seem to have been raised much recently.

Xara brushes today are essentially equivalent to the "Image...

I have to say the defining feature of Xara has always been the remarkable speed it typically maintains without needing a lot of hardware.

Also vector graphic processing is generally much less...

Thanks for the tips James, much appreciated. The approach you show in the demo is nifty, it probably has some interesting creative possibilities that are outside what true connectors could do.
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I agree, this is why I was suggesting we add some new line end styles, rather than scrapping the current scheme in favour of only having "within the line length" heads and tails.

Having said that...

I'll second this one. I have multiple machines at home, used by multiple family members. Reconfiguring the button layout for each user is a significant irritation each time I reinstall or upgrade...

One minor point I find incredibly annoying in Xara is the way arrow heads and tails are drawn.

The new straight line tool adds more control over arrow head and tail sizes (although why only...

Note: I get tired typing "Xara Photo & Graphic Designer". Is "PGD" the accepted abbreviation?

Anyway, my vote for a simple feature I could really use in Xara PGD is connectors. Multiple graphics...

Thanks Javier (and Frank!) great to see how it's done.

The detail views are also terrific. Hopefully one day TalkGraphics will get a gallery where images can be appreciated in something like their...

Superb piece of work. Congratulations!

I would really like to see a higher-res version of this to appreciate the detail.

I would also like to know how you went about constructing elements like...

You are 90% of the way there. Your drawing contains 2 connected objects, the circular shape and the text. You need to use <control>-click to select the circular line INSIDE the connected set (which...

Just one thought on what Charles said-



I'm no expert on the area, but wasn't it Adobe who created Multiple Master fonts, which offered the capability to synthesize any font variant along...

2.75m only sounds arbitrary. The engine will not be working in metres (or ft), so it's unlikely the dimension limit will be a nice round number in "human" units. In fact this will be a 32bit (signed...

Those of us old enough to remember the DEC VAX VMS operating system will remember that by default it automatically created file versions very time you saved a file, then had a "Purge" command to...

Erm, I'd call this a "glint".

Regards: Colin

I spent 25 years working for IT companies, working in Software development, Technical Sales Support, and electronic business implementation. A couple of years ago I took Voluntary Redundancy, and I...

If the selection handles are hard to select on the transparency line, remember the tab key will toggle between them, which is often more convenient.

Regards: Colin