The "snap to guide" ?

[stephane_fr]

Hello.

Until I have in the "Windows" properties "show guides" and "snap to guides" selected, I can't put any object stricly along the guides, as I could do before... and I don't understand what I could do to loose this property !

Thank you in advance for your help


(in Xtreme 5)

[stephane_fr]

The "snap to grid" works very well, the "snap to guide" doesn't anymore - it worked more than 15 monthes before !)

Very strange...

[gray]

Stephane, are you saying that it no longer turns on in the window menu?

[wizard509]

Stéphane
That sounds normal to me. At least that's how my XDP6 works.

[stephane_fr]

Hello and thank you for answering me.

Before, this function was ok on my Xara. And it is very important as I have now difficulties to make quickly good works concerning surfaces on "low level" layers (as I have to put quantified datas to create and place surfaces, instead of doing everything in a few seconds with mouse, thanks to the guides)

And sorry if I didn't explain very well the problem...


What's happening exactly ? Of course I can create guide (they appear on red and dotted lines). Of course the "Window > Snap to guide" is on. Moreover, if I make a right-click on mouse, I can see that the "snap to guide" is on.

But when I create a basic vector object, and I move it with mouse, my vector object doesn't snap anymore on the guide. As if guides were not recognized anymore...


So big problems to "build" something rigorously, unless, as I wrote over, I put datas with numbers, in the X,Y, W,H boxes, and that's a lot of unpleasant work as you can imagine !


(Thank you for your help)

[stephane_fr]

Stephane, are you saying that it no longer turns on in the window menu?

No and that's what is strange : in the window menu the snap to guide is on. EVen if I click-right with mouse I see it on too. But in effective page, it doesn't work (anymore)... I insist on "anymore" because It worked for 2 years before !


Here is a link where you can see the choices for guides... (with no effective results but that can't be show, I just can tell it )

http://nsa19.casimages.com/img/2011/...4550493376.jpg

[wizard509]

Stephanie,
do you have your work saved somewhere.
Try uninstallintg the program and reinstalling to see if that fixes the problem. Could be something you didn't know about changed your program.

[stephane_fr]

Ok that's what I will try to do then...

I bought the Xara Xtreme 5 online, 2 years ago. I have a serial number, but... no "physical soft" to download anymore.

How can I do then ?


(Stéphane, not Stephanie )

[stephane_fr]

I found back my software, I reinstalled it, then the "snap to guide" works now


Thank you very much for your help.

[wizard509]

Glad you got it sorted out.