Thanks to Everyone working on the Open Source Project

**Soquili** · 30 July 2006, 09:54 PM

Xara is 25 years old. The open source project is not one year old at this time, but it is progressing rapidly.

I was enjoying playing around in Xara Xtreme LX and this 'happened'

**-=Drifter=-** · 31 July 2006, 12:23 PM

beautiful Bill!!!!

**Soquili** · 01 August 2006, 12:21 AM

Thanks Bob. I guess you and I are the only ones that think it's neat looking

I noticed there have been 4 views (downloads).

**Egg Bramhill** · 01 August 2006, 01:23 AM

I only lurk here Bill, not being a Linux user. But it's very neat and always interesting to see how rapidly XaraLX's is progressing. (You need to change your fonts to shapes

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**Soquili** · 01 August 2006, 01:36 AM

Hi Egg. Thanks for speaking up instead of lurking. I forgot to change the fonts to shapes before

I'm getting old and forgetful about such things.

Here's another 'doodle' using the latest 'unstable' release, the font has been converted to shapes

. Last night I was getting an error when trying to bevel the Chancery font that came with Debian Linux. Tonight it works wonderfully. The bevel applied without error and the responsiveness of the tool is much improved from the previous r 1596 I was using.

Using Xara Xtreme LX is like using the Windows version (with a few limitations for features still being developed). I don't havea Mac or know anyone that uses one to ask if they have success using it on their platform.

**MEB** · 01 August 2006, 02:56 PM

Hi soquili,
I´m another lurker in this forum. I don´t have a linux box runing, that´s why i don´t spend much time here... something i´m already working on.

Two days ago i´ve tried Ubuntu but since i didn´t have any space available to install it (neither i want to try changing my partitions right now - too risky), i´ve playing just in "live mode" with the OS.
I´m trying to find a way to get a new hard drive without spending too much money just to install ubuntu and runing Xara LX. I know it includes some features that are being developed in Linux and missing from the windows version. The psd export, some improvements on text handling are some things i would like to try...

I´m really surprised with the fast development of the linux version. Never thought it would be so quick. For the fist time i´m confident that the open-source of Xara xtreme will really help to speed up the inclusion of new features in Xtreme. That´s all i could wish

Hope to have ubuntu and xtreme LX runing really soon here... so i can do more than just lurking.

Miguel

**BPFowler** · 05 August 2006, 11:31 AM

Originally Posted by Soquili

I don't have a Mac or know anyone that uses one to ask if they have success using it on their platform.

Neither of those XARs open on MacOS X because they contain PNGs and the file IO code has not yet been upgraded to byte swap PNGs (or that's the story, at least). I expect that the same will be seen on Linux PPC. This is Bug 929 "Failure reading PNG bitmap".

Are you willing to post a XAR with has neither a PNG nor a JPEG - the Mac will probably open it? I appreciate that the artwork shown here does need a background picture to work.

Ben