Print to Postscript Printer(s) causes Xara to crash... workaround?

[reinvented]

I have a large (~50MB) Xara 2.0 file that I'm trying to print to a PostScript imagesetter. It consists of text, a large background PSD file, about 50 photos, and a couple of lines with transparency applied.

Xara consistently crashes when I print. I've tried printing to a file, printing to Adobe Acrobat Distiller and Xara still crashes. I try exporting to a Corel EPS file. Xara still crashes. I've tried turning off various layers. Xara crashes regardless of the nature of the layers turned on. Here's the crash dump information:

CORELXRA caused an invalid page fault in
module XARADRAW.DLL at 0167:0300ce4e.
Registers:
EAX=00ffffff CS=0167 EIP=0300ce4e EFLGS=00010282
EBX=fffffc8c SS=016f ESP=0528dd7c EBP=000003b4
ECX=000003b4 DS=016f ESI=0062eb98 FS=348f
EDX=00000000 ES=016f EDI=0528ceac GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50
Stack dump:

Can anyone suggest a workaround or solution to this problem?

[reinvented]

I have a large (~50MB) Xara 2.0 file that I'm trying to print to a PostScript imagesetter. It consists of text, a large background PSD file, about 50 photos, and a couple of lines with transparency applied.

Xara consistently crashes when I print. I've tried printing to a file, printing to Adobe Acrobat Distiller and Xara still crashes. I try exporting to a Corel EPS file. Xara still crashes. I've tried turning off various layers. Xara crashes regardless of the nature of the layers turned on. Here's the crash dump information:

CORELXRA caused an invalid page fault in
module XARADRAW.DLL at 0167:0300ce4e.
Registers:
EAX=00ffffff CS=0167 EIP=0300ce4e EFLGS=00010282
EBX=fffffc8c SS=016f ESP=0528dd7c EBP=000003b4
ECX=000003b4 DS=016f ESI=0062eb98 FS=348f
EDX=00000000 ES=016f EDI=0528ceac GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50
Stack dump:

Can anyone suggest a workaround or solution to this problem?

[diniel]

Can you print the file as a bitmap?

Print -> Options -> Output -> Print As Bitmap

[reinvented]

I tried the printing as a bitmap as suggested, and Xara crashed again. Different crash dump, though:

CORELXRA caused an invalid page fault in
module XARADRAW.DLL at 0167:0301d639.
Registers:
EAX=00003600 CS=0167 EIP=0301d639 EFLGS=00010206
EBX=00000060 SS=016f ESP=00000099 EBP=0000011a
ECX=0000004c DS=016f ESI=000000e4 FS=5307
EDX=0000002a ES=016f EDI=02f67f9c GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8a 44 b7 02 2a 84 03 6d 0f 46 03 88 44 b7 02 8a
Stack dump:
d000c90f 6c00c90f 6600c910 b4007004 6c034f05 6c00c910 6c00c910 0000c910 f6069800 ea084103 00c90fe4 6cf00096 0100c910 6c091f00 6c00c910 6c00c910

[diniel]

... copying all of the drawing to the clipboard, starting a new file, and pasting it in? If you press CTRL+SHIFT+V to paste, the drawing on the clipboard should plonk itself down in the same position on the (new) page. Then everything will be on the same layer, so that should solve the problem if there's something wrong with the existing file, or the layers.

If that doesn't work, maybe it is worth trying the swop of the xaradraw.dll file? You rename the xaradraw.dll file to something like xaradraw.old and then rename Xdlarge.dll to xaradraw.dll

That allows you to work with bitmaps over 4096 pixels wide, but might also be different in some other way - but I am just guessing here. If it doesn't make any difference, it's probably safer to swop the names back to what they were after trying.

[reinvented]

I took the suggestion of (a) increasing Xara's ability to import larger bitmaps and (b) creating a new Xara document but copying and pasting all objects from the original.

Once I did this, I could both export as a bitmap to the required size *and* print to a PostScript printer without an error.

Thanks.