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  1. #21
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    Default Re: Help changing only width or height of an image?

    could be web designer dosn't do this - we had to 'make noise' to get it reinstated in xdp and xp&g when it was ommitted in ver 15.0 - xara's philosophy of making design for web and office documents 'easy' [and 'non-destructive' as Rob said] tends to discount squishing as unwanted distortion - it would not be the only thing missing from the web specific programs

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    Default Re: Help changing only width or height of an image?

    Quote Originally Posted by handrawn View Post
    could be web designer dosn't do this - we had to 'make noise' to get it reinstated in xdp and xp&g when it was ommitted in ver 15.0 - xara's philosophy of making design for web and office documents 'easy' [and 'non-destructive' as Rob said] tends to discount squishing as unwanted distortion - it would not be the only thing missing from the web specific programs

    acorn will probably know...
    The current approach (Smart Transform) in XDPXv16.0 was applied to v15.1 but not before, if that helps. I stopped the Update Service for XWDPv15.0 so I can only hazard a guess that no v15.0 Desktop applications have any mechanism to bypass this situation. Xara stands by its position that is is not a bug. As a result I still keep XWDPv12.8 at hand.

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    Default Re: Help changing only width or height of an image?

    I equate the approach as - our software is not really meant to do this [squish] unless you are one of those designers who use bitmaps that are not photographs, or who 'distort' photographs before tracing over them for art ,which actually, is a pretty common workflow at least for animation - this is not our core client base

    it was at least good of them to put back the legacy way in ver 15.1

    and lets face it, even with the tools it has, xara's raster tools are rather macdonalds to photoshop's beef wellington; if you want to do mesh warp and the like you can't use xara anyway, unless you set another program up an external editor which does not always work as it should
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    Default Re: Help changing only width or height of an image?

    NOTE: Chris said he did this in WDP 16, which doesn't work.
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    Default Re: Help changing only width or height of an image?

    put back in in ver 15.1 of XDP .then.. as far as web designer goes I don't know it was ever there as I said...
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    Default Re: Help changing only width or height of an image?

    Quote Originally Posted by ss-kalm View Post
    NOTE: Chris said he did this in WDP 16, which doesn't work.
    Apologies, this should be fixed in the next patch

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    Default Re: Help changing only width or height of an image?

    so it worked in wd15 but not in wd16 - then I rest my case... xara's priorities [in my opinion] are elsewhere... either that or they have grown 'careless'
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    Default Re: Help changing only width or height of an image?

    Quote Originally Posted by handrawn View Post
    so it worked in wd15 but not in wd16 - then I rest my case... xara's priorities [in my opinion] are elsewhere... either that or they have grown 'careless'
    No, it didn't work in WD15 nor in 16, but we've fixed it and it should be in the next patch coming up. No need to be sassy either.

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    Default Re: Help changing only width or height of an image?

    Wow, this really is a splinter in the collective finger.

    I can get around the lack of squish/squash, it's the lack of snapping when resizing in Smart Transform that bothers me more. Even that isn't a huge deal, it just slows the workflow.

    It sounds like the Smart Transform seemed like a good idea but may need some rethink. Having said that, are there any users that think it works well?

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    Default Re: Help changing only width or height of an image?

    It sounds like the Smart Transform seemed like a good idea but may need some rethink. Having said that, are there any users that think it works well?
    No, just remove it and convert to how it used to be. It's an unnecessary complication that confuses not only new users but vetran users.
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