JUST RELEASED: An Update to Xara Web Designer

**behzad** · 05 March 2019, 02:38 AM

Great work Kate. I was checking the link below and comparing to see if the pdf from within xara help file has been updated and I believe it has not. Please let me know when all these new features will be added to the pdf documentation?

http://releasenotes.xara.hosting/web...Anchor:58a0c7J

**webmaster** · 05 March 2019, 01:19 PM

Originally Posted by behzad

Great work Kate. I was checking the link below and comparing to see if the pdf from within xara help file has been updated and I believe it has not. Please let me know when all these new features will be added to the pdf documentation?

http://releasenotes.xara.hosting/web...Anchor:58a0c7J

Oops, yes, you're right. I will have a direct link to the updated PDF for you shortly, will post it here.

**DuaneW** · 05 March 2019, 02:43 PM

I do not know if this where I post but I just uploaded the new Xara update. The update was successfully installed but now when I click on "File/New from Content Catalog" a message states that "You need to be online to use this feature", I am online and in the middle of designing a website. I looked everywhere to see why only Xara will not connect to the internet and all my other programs do. Keep in mind this happened only after upgrading. Any suggestions. Thanks Duane

**RKissane** · 05 March 2019, 02:56 PM

Duane,

Try starting the program as an administrator to see if this corrects. Only need to do it once. right click on the program icon to run as administrator.

Ray

**DuaneW** · 05 March 2019, 03:08 PM

No that did not work, still get the same message...

**Rob-Xar** · 05 March 2019, 04:34 PM

Originally Posted by DuaneW

I do not know if this where I post but I just uploaded the new Xara update. The update was successfully installed but now when I click on "File/New from Content Catalog" a message states that "You need to be online to use this feature", I am online and in the middle of designing a website. I looked everywhere to see why only Xara will not connect to the internet and all my other programs do. Keep in mind this happened only after upgrading. Any suggestions. Thanks Duane

This might sound silly but have you tried restarting your PC? If that doesn't fix it we can run some diagnostic tools and see what is happening in the background.

Thanks
Rob

**DuaneW** · 05 March 2019, 05:34 PM

Originally Posted by Rob-Xar

This might sound silly but have you tried restarting your PC? If that doesn't fix it we can run some diagnostic tools and see what is happening in the background.

Thanks
Rob

I found the problem. When Xara was updating I did not close out the website that was being worked on. Somehow the update affected that feature. I went to the backup file and opened a previous backup (I setup my backup feature to keep 10 backups) and the link works fine now. If anyone is reading this, the backup feature in Xara is very valuable. It has saved me many, many times, what a great feature. Everyone who creates websites should at least have the feature set for 5 backups. Anyway thank you for responding to my situation. Duane

**garycwood84** · 09 March 2019, 03:04 PM

I have upgraded to the latest version.

Is there a deliberate difference in the way grouped graphics are exported? I have EPS logos in my file, and in the new version they are set to export components as separate graphics, rather than the group as a single graphic. Opening the same file in the older version, the objects are set to export as a group.

This is a real pain, because with a large site, it's going to take me ages to go through every group of graphics, in each variant of my site, and change the export option back to exporting groups as single graphics. Can this change be reverted in the software, or changed at the site level?

**Acorn** · 09 March 2019, 03:39 PM

Originally Posted by garycwood84

I have upgraded to the latest version.

Is there a deliberate difference in the way grouped graphics are exported? I have EPS logos in my file, and in the new version they are set to export components as separate graphics, rather than the group as a single graphic. Opening the same file in the older version, the objects are set to export as a group.

This is a real pain, because with a large site, it's going to take me ages to go through every group of graphics, in each variant of my site, and change the export option back to exporting groups as single graphics. Can this change be reverted in the software, or changed at the site level?

Gary, this has impacted others in different ways. Xara is aware. I would hold off making changes to everything until Xara works out what to do.