How to make Xara X crash

[Bob Hahn]

I had Xara X just disappear on me in a graphic. And I've figured out what causes it. Don't know if it just happens to me, but you can try and see if it happens to you.

My version of Xara X is 1.0d CD.

Open a new drawing, and create a 800x600 rectangle. Center it to the page. Create 2 quick shape stars and change the size of the feather reagion to 17pix to each star.

Have the stars overlap each other a bit (like in the attached photo.) Select the stars and the background shape and apply "Clip View."

Now select the zoom tool and zoom in to the area where the stars overlap. That's when Xara will crash. Usually on the first zoom attempt.

Don't know if this is a known thing, but it happens.

- Bob.