Quote Originally Posted by Rob-Xar View Post
Yes, the commenting facility is a smartshape that is inserted into the document with some special markup to pick up signed in user, date stamp, not to appear in export etc. This is one of the few smartshapes that was designed specifically for Cloud; desktop doesn't have this SS so it's not expected to work properly (and appear as an inactive shape).

I don't think theirs any plans currently to enable this functionality in desktop, although that may change in the future.
Thank you Rob.

I am afraid I have to turn this request into a Bug Report.

Having hidden but selectable Comment Shapes on my design page from a session in Xara Cloud will destroy my object manipulation.
At its simplest, I can inadvertently (Soft-)Group objects with hidden Comments and now I have a Snap to Objects fail.

Xara therefore needs to implement:
  • The Comment in the XDA should be rendered so it is visible (and editable).
  • All Comments should be added into a Comment Layer that is initialised as Hidden.

Acorn