Xara Designer Pro - Pen Pressure Brush with Wacom?

[WilliamHere]

Greetings,


I am trying to get my Xara Designer Pro X to work with my wacom cintiq for brush pressure sensitivity.


Here is what I am doing:
1. I click on the freehand brush tool
2. I click the "Enable Pressure Recording" icon
3. I select the "Pen Pressure" shape from the Line Gallery


When I start to draw, my brush reverts back into the constant line brush.
How do I get it to stick so that I can get pressure sensitivity with my tablet?


Thank you in advance for your reply!

[Rik]

This isn't much help to you, but, I don't get that problem.

It stays on Pen Pressure.

[WilliamHere]

This isn't much help to you, but, I don't get that problem.

It stays on Pen Pressure.

Hi Rik,
Thanks for the reply.

My wacom cintiq is working fine. I am able to use it and it responds well.
When I select the "Pen Pressure" shape and start drawing, it switches back to one of the default brush shapes. Very strange.


Any other ideas?
I am using Xara Designer Pro X with Mac OSX 10.7.5 running Windows Vista Ultimate under Parallels Desktop 8.

Cheers!

[Rik]

Ah!

I haven't tried that on my MacBook.
I am running OS X 10.8.3 though.
Windows 7, Parallels Desktop 8.

I'll give it a go on that and let you know.

Before I connect things up, I do seem to remember something similar happening. But, I thought that there was something I didn't understand or was doing wrong.
OK. I shall report back on this.

[WilliamHere]

Ah!

I haven't tried that on my MacBook.
I am running OS X 10.8.3 though.
Windows 7, Parallels Desktop 8.

I'll give it a go on that and let you know.

Before I connect things up, I do seem to remember something similar happening. But, I thought that there was something I didn't understand or was doing wrong.
OK. I shall report back on this.

Thanks Rik !!!

[Rik]

Yup.

Does the same for me on my MacBook.

It's OK on my normal Desktop PC, running Windows 7 and Designer Pro X.

But, on my MacBook (details in previous post) it just doesn't stay on Pen Pressure.
In fact, the Pen Pressure profile gets greyed out.

So, I don't know whether this is a Parallels problem?

Actually, I also have Fusion 5.
I might fire that up and see if it gives the same problem.

[WilliamHere]

Yup.

Does the same for me on my MacBook.

It's OK on my normal Desktop PC, running Windows 7 and Designer Pro X.

But, on my MacBook (details in previous post) it just doesn't stay on Pen Pressure.
In fact, the Pen Pressure profile gets greyed out.

So, I don't know whether this is a Parallels problem?

Actually, I also have Fusion 5.
I might fire that up and see if it gives the same problem.

Strange! Keep me posted.
Thanks!

[handrawn]

Hi

Rik - I was thinking gnomra might have a hand in this - just a thought