Evening all,

Forgive me if these are FAQs - I may have missed
them in reading the documentation, and I'm new
to the forum.

I've been giving some feedback/suggestions to
the people at Xara for Xara X, having used
CorelXARA 2 intermittently for a couple of years.
Obviously they're quite busy, so I wanted to
check here to see whether you could help out.

Firstly, I had a problem printing to PostScript
(going to a printing bureau) where colours
matching on screen didn't match when printed
(specifically an ellipse used to cover a bitmap
blemish). AFAICR the ellipse colour was specified
in HSV; the image was an RGB TIFF. I can believe
the suggestion that the difference is only there
in CMYK, but I'm not sure how to tell. ArtWorks
has a "view separations" options, but am I right
in saying there's no way to preview this (other
than, possibly, printing the separations and
viewing them separately) in Xara?

Secondly, from problems with the same file, has
anyone had trouble with Xara reading large (e.g.
20MB) TIFF files under Windows95? It's quite
possible that my problems are with the machine,
since it seems to be unstable anyway, but the
file seems to be getting corrupted when it's
written.

Speaking of printing, my third question. Having
found out the hard way about manually setting the
transparency resolution - 200dpi blocks are very
visible on a 2400dpi postscript image - I
recognized the problem when I was trying to print
some bitmaps (well, pattern filled rectangles -
is there a difference?) This time I was trying to
print some high resolution images on a 1440dpi
Epson photo printer. I could increase the image
resolution by changing the "transparency
resolution" to 360dpi, but was a bit surprised
that it doesn't seem possible to set the value
above 600dpi, and that it seemed to use more
memory that I was expecting. Is this really the
control I should be using? 360dpi seems to be
enough in this case, but the quality is lower
than I would have liked given the capabilities
of the printer. Changing the resolution also
seems to provoke crashes under Windows 95 (though
not under Win98), but I could believe my machine
(or the printer driver) is just broken.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give,

Fingers crossed for grouped transparency making
it back in a future version of X...

Andrew Garrard
(Upgrading to Xara X next month)