OK, need help please... :Text repel.

**X-Newbie** · 05 July 2009, 01:26 PM

I really like WD but it seems like XX5 works a little cleaner. I am going to continue working with WD and see which works best. Thanks for the information. I was copy/pasting a paragraph before but I had to be doing something funky for it not to work.

I still have had no answers on the folders question.

**bcire68** · 05 July 2009, 01:42 PM

I for one don't understand what you mean by 'all layers in a folder'. I can think of a few things that you could mean but I don't want to speculate. Can you please be more specific?

Thanks,
Eric

**X-Newbie** · 05 July 2009, 02:04 PM

What I feel would be great and maybe it is there - not sure. If there was a folder option like in PhotoShop or other graphic programs that allow you to take certain layers place them in a folder. The selected layers within these folders are easily moved around if the folder is selected. This would also allow the user to keep things more in an organized style.

**X-Newbie** · 05 July 2009, 04:14 PM

I am attaching a quick file I just made to try and see what I am doing wrong with Repel in now both X5 and WD. The issue is when I have an arch sometimes it will work to repel and others it will not.

I would also like to know if there is a book on these 2 softwares available from Xara or Magix...

Please let me know what I have done incorrectly.

**HayTay** · 05 July 2009, 04:58 PM

X-Newbie,

The answer is the same as I posted previously.

Here's some help from the Xara Xtreme Help File:

Note that single lines of text do not respond to repelling objects, only text areas and text columns do.

Note that you cannot make an object both repelling and anchored. If you apply both to an object, anchoring takes priority and the repelling attribute of the object is ignored (it will not repel).

The text in your file is a single text line. Click on one of them and look at the status line on the lower left to verify. I know it looks like multiple lines of text to you, but it isn't to XX or XWD. Copy the text and then paste it into a 'text column' or 'text area' to make the Text Repel feature work consistently for you.

IHTH,
Harry

**steve.ledger** · 05 July 2009, 06:59 PM

Threads merged.

**bcire68** · 05 July 2009, 08:06 PM

OK X,

That is what I thought you might be talking about. The answer is that in Xara Xtreme Pro v5 there is something like that, only they don't call it a folder, they call it a page. You can have multiple layers per page on a multi-page document. As you can see in the example picture I have two pages, one called index and the other called products. Each page has several sub layers. Again this functionality is only available in the Pro version. The non pro version does not have this functionality.

Eric