Bouton's Xara Stuff: Volume 3

[Gare]

This is more of a Clipart gift rather than a neat Gary Drawing.

But I drew it in Xara, I use it in Xara so tough ░░░░ ... darts




I either auto-traced copies of materials or drew each one by hand. I did not break a glyph out of any existing fonts.

The locked text descriptors (converted to curves) either reference from which font I "adopted" where applicable, or I suggest a typeface that will work well with a specific ampersand glyph.

Get inspired!

[Boy]

That's a very nice collection, Gare, and it's most gracious of you to share it here. Thank you!

[ss-kalm]

Thank You Gary.

[Gare]

You're welcome, folks—

Clipart is something that's pretty lame not to share. I get freemiums and freeware fonts and photography all over the web, and I'm just trying to balance the scales a little, as it were.

And to drum up a little ▓▓▓▓▓ traffic, because otherwise, tg is getting BOR-ING. 🌞



-g

[Acorn]

And to drum up a little ▓▓▓▓▓ traffic, because otherwise, tg is getting BOR-ING.

It's boring because Xara is failing us in not engaging and assuaging concerns about its products, its direction and support. Rob-Xar does a great front act but without the rest of the cast showing up, all we see are curtains, metaphorical and literal.

I want the products to sing so true artists and designers can focus on their craft. Web presentation is a necessary adjunct as without the mechanism, all the art in the world would become niche.

Acorn

[Gare]

For me, acorn, I've tried to find a suitable backup program if MAGIX manages to sink Xara...have not found one.

Xara's not the only game in town, but I cannot throw away an investment of decades getting comfortable and productive. Moreover, I wrote a tutorial on how to do something I felt was not demanding, and I discovered Affinity Designer doesn't have Blends or Contours, Inkscape—admirably cobbled—is missing a few shape manipulation features, Illustrator doesn't have a color-tagging feature, CorelDRAW, in addition to being expensive and on a subscription plan...I could go on.

But won't.

Hey, I gave away some neat ampersands and really don't want to start lamenting over the very program I used to organize and refine the ampersands.

And I realize I started it.


My Best,

Gary




(Here's a good one for St. Valentine's Day)

[Acorn]

For me, acorn, I've tried to find a suitable backup program if MAGIX manages to sink Xara...have not found one.

Gare, insightful as ever.

My backup solution is to keep my Xara Desktop applications accessible through their version 11 invocation as I don't think Magix or Xara can sink them as the Cloud linkage is nebulous.

Acorn