+ While there is an obvious "best" solution to this problem...
always working in XaraLX(!), with xar format files... this isnt
always possible, or, many times I have found it necessary to
re-edit an image which was produced some time earlier in xaralx,
but is now available only in some external format.

XaraLX currently... that I know of... will [export] a jpg
nicely, or, a drawing can be printed to file, and worked with in
other programs... but - what is the preferred way to import a file
to xaralx, that can be made fully workable ? (this is to distinguish
from those files which import more as icons_ which can be added, as is,
to a file, but are largely not xara re-workable). I've inquired here similarly,
some months ago, but wanted to ask in this new way. Thanks.

PS - I dont understand Xara coding well enough to know how this might
be done - but I envision a "new" function which would automatically
reduce any graphic file to raw/editable Xara bits ?