Please consider Adding Page size wider than 92" tall and wide

[printchic]

Dear Xara,

Love the wonderful product. However, it sure would be really nice to be able to make a page size wider or taller than 92" (aka page margins)

Those of us that deal in oversize layouts for printing on wide format printers could really use this feature.

Now that adobe has gone cloud-ish and more buzz is made that xara is an alternative having a wider page size would make sense.

Signed,
Printchic

[Rob-Xar]

I get asked this quite a lot:

http://support.xara.com/index.php?/K...e-is-too-small

[mwenz]

I get asked this quite a lot:

http://support.xara.com/index.php?/K...e-is-too-small

Following the confirmation of a bug I reported, I mentioned to the person I was conversing with that now, especially with 64-bit being out, why at least Xara doesn't at least increase the page size to the maximum that Adobe Reader can display without distilling (cause with using Distiller one can go larger than the 200+ inch limit and still display the PDF)...and the response was why not indeed.

There is no reason good for an 8' limit. Unless it is hard-baked into the proprietary file format.

Especially when one realizes that one can force (or trick) XDP into a larger page size. I have one on-screen right now that is 120" wide by 96" tall.

Mike

[Rob-Xar]

There is no reason good for an 8' limit. Unless it is hard-baked into the proprietary file format.

There is no good reason that you know of, but the developers would know; It may be a technical limitation.

However at the same time, there is no reason to have a page this size as outlined in the article.

[mwenz]

There is no good reason that you know of, but the developers would know; It may be a technical limitation.

However at the same time, there is no reason to have a page this size as outlined in the article.

Rob, with all due respect, I have made booth signage for a whole lotta years. I have historically used CorelDraw for this. But I have used Xara Designer Pro as well.

I understand all about effective resolution required versus viewing distance. There are quite good reasons for larger documents than XDP natively will allow one to create. If you had worked in an industry that one makes large format signage and other documents, you would understand this.

Because one can trick XDP into doing it, it is simply an internal programming thing, not the file format per se (which I accidentally wrote above).

All this said, even in CD I often work at scale. But there is a big difference in designing at 50% scale to designing at 10% scale when it comes to the output. I would much rather work at as large a scale as possible. I have made a lot of signage in CD where, for instance, Photoshop assets approached 1 gig...and there were more than one. And that was still at scale. In XDP this would have been impossible.

[mwenz]

As a further follow-up (not meaning to necessarily prod the bear), I suspect the only code limiting the page size is in the page options dialog. I suspect this code checks for valid page sizes--wouldn't want someone to type a negative value by accident.

Not saying there shouldn't be a limit. But it is an artificial limitation to whatever degree.

Modern computers running a modern 64-bit OS can handle a larger page size. At least if XDP 64-bit is really capable of accessing all the memory available.