Akvis Sketch Plugin

[molucca]

I believe I have seen that before. It seemed to be a refresh problem as far as I could tell.

I had a problem with the progerss bar before my system suffered from an overvoltage condition, and with the new system, that went away.

Sketch runs differently from XPE. In XXP, I lock the effect and make bitmap copies. This keeps the plugin from rerunning when making a bitmap copy. Difference bewteen running from vector and bitmap , I think.

Akvis is very good at responding to problems, and you might write to them.

If I see this again, I'll make a note of what happens.

Rich

[handrawn]

I can get this effect sometimes in different circumstances.

ctrl-shift-T to redraw, or minimise to desktop and restore, usually helps

think like said it is a graphics card refresh issue?

[joa1]

Thank you Rich and Steve for your feedback...
I am still trying to figure this out. Refreshing the screen does not seem to work... and I am having this problem in 3 different machines I tried SKETCH on... all very same problem.
Also tried Xara X (SKETCH produces an error and does not load).
XPE has the same problem.
I do manage, however, to save the image directly from the Xara image editor to disk, and then import it into XXP, XPE, etc. This of course does not allow me to fiddle with the plugin settings any more (this is probably what you mean by locking the image, Rich!?)
I have not yet tried SKETCH on a vector, as exemplified here (http://akvis.com/en/sketch-tutorial/vector-image.php), but will try it next... what I am trying is using it on a BMP/JPEG, then go vector, etc.
I did write Akvis. I will post their solution here in case they come up with one.
Thks again.
Joao

[Estrella]

hi there!
Please try:
1. Open an image in Xara Xtreme (I tested with v. 3.2)
2. Select in menu Utilities - Bitmap Editor
3. Launch the Sketch plugin by pressing the button "PS Plug-in"
4. When you are satisfied with the result in the Sketch window, press the button "Apply".
You will return to Picture Editor.
5. Save the result right here, in Picture Editor (the button "Save")!
6. Then select in the same menu "Edits" and remove Sketch from a list. It will prevent the
program from running again.
7. Exit Picture bitmap editor and return to Xara.
8. Open the picture that you saved before.

[molucca]

Sketch 7 is now available.

Rich