Rounded Corners

[Egg Bramhill]

Andreh,

What's the problem? The whole operation takes a matter of seconds. If you want to see a hard way, look here

[noskule]

@egg: As far as I see (I don't no xara for more than some days) the problem is that it isnt possible to resize the rounded corners after converting them to editable shapes. In Inkscape there is an option for choosing "scale corners" yes/no and "scale outline" yes/no. This is a very handy feature.

[PhilM]

Hi Andreh,

The inability to lock the aspect ratio of corners when squashing rectangles (or other objects) has been something that Xtreme users have wanted for a long time!

People have worked around it in various clever ways but we recognise that it would be a good feature to have and is exactly the kind of thing that prompted us to make Xara LX open source.

If you're interested in adding a "Scale corners" option to Xara LX, please head on over to www.xaralx.org and get involved in the development effort.

BTW, noskule: There is a "Scale linewidths" option on the Selector tool's Infobar.

Phil

[Andreh]

It's not my area PhilM, I'm a designer not a programmer, all I can do is give some ideas and I have some other to give, wait and you will see ^^

PS: IF a programmer use any of my suggestions please remember me on the credits ^^ good luck

[noskule]

There still is a "strange" behvior in the current version. If I draw a rectangle, push the "rounded corner" option everything works okey. But if I draw a rectangle AND change the dimensions and use the curve option the rounded corner gets allredy disstorted. I testd this only on linux so, couldnt doublecheck . . ... seams not a logical behavoir . . . ..

[pauland]

Same on Windows.

What seems to happen is that the curve is applied to the rectangle as you originally drew it, then the change in dimensions is applied to that, thereby distorting it. Yes, it's pretty annoying, but others have already explained how to work around it. AFAIK it's always been this way from the very first version.

Paul

[Andreh]

I need to compare with another program, sory xara team, well, Corel Draw has the same problem, it's seems that when you deform a shape you don't loose the original form, it's just showed distorted on the screen. I way to solve that is actualy change the shape structure and make the rounded edges based on circles (logical hum) whith a variable width, the Corel aplication work it in a interesting way, it make all the 4 corners of the shape editable and each one may take a circle with a diferent width making a cool effect.

[rakeshb03]

This is a very common problem related to rectangle converted onto curves or distorted rectangles. But it can be resolved very easily if you follow some simple instructions or method already provided woth coreldraw. Visit the below link to find how to solve this problem and to know how you can create rounded coreners to an curved object...

http://advancetechnology.today.com/2...-coreldraw-x4/

[Seagull]

I don't know, am I the only one that can do this. Maybe there is a fluke in my machine but I can do this in both xtreame and X W D. I am including an image to show that I have both pulled and extended a rounded square with no distortion. Using the rectangle tool I just have to grap the external handels on the four corners and do as I wish.

If I am the only person that can do this because of some fluke, all I can say is WOW, great for me..........to bad for the rest of you suckers....................frank

[fjgaude]

Andreh,

What's the problem? The whole operation takes a matter of seconds. If you want to see a hard way, look here

Thanks, man. That Photoshop demo says it all: Adobe isn't too interested in doing simple things in a simple way. Maybe in Illustrator things would be simpler?

frank