Importing animated GIF

[Acorn]

is the current PDF manual searchable? I have one somewhere, but rarely llok at it these days most of what i do in xara being so routine [for me]

Yes it is searchable.
It is downloadable from http://dl03.magix.net/manual_designerprox16_en.pdf for version 16.3.

MagiXara stupidly put this as a link into Help > PDF Manual so everytime you want to read sometime, MagiXara expects you to download it all over!?! earlier versions unpacked it into C:\Program Files\Xara\Xara Designer Pro X\16\HelpAndSupport\ENG\ and linked to the local file!
I raised this as a Dear Xara but, like most other things, no reply.

Acorn

[handrawn]

thanks i have 15.1 manual somewhere and a hard copy of ver 11 - those were the days....

[Boy]

earlier versions unpacked it into C:\Program Files\Xara\Xara Designer Pro X\16\HelpAndSupport\ENG\ and linked to the local file!

I'm on XDP 15.1 and in its Program Files folder there's only xarax.chm, so thanks for that link (I changed "manual_designerprox16_en.pdf" into "manual_designerprox15_en.pdf" for the download). So much easier to navigate than the standard Help file.

[Acorn]

I'm on XDP 15.1 and in its Program Files folder there's only xarax.chm, so thanks for that link (I changed "manual_designerprox16_en.pdf" into "manual_designerprox15_en.pdf" for the download). So much easier to navigate than the standard Help file.

Yes, there is also a http://dl03.magix.net/manual_webdesigner15_en.pdf & http://dl03.magix.net/manual_webdesigner16_en.pdf but why would MagiXara tell you?

i have not pecked around for any German versions.

Acorn

[wizard509]

I am looking to use an animated GIF to simulate molten steel in a diagram of a blast furnace. When I import the GIF into the page in Designer Pro X (either 3rd party or one I have made in Designer Pro X), each frame in the GIF gets put onto a separate layer and all layers (including those already in the page) are locked. This is not the behaviour I expected and when I preview the page only one frame is visible and the GIF is not animating.
It seems straightforward from Xara Help to import the GIF and it should just work... What am I doing wrong??

I agree with handrawn here, I have done this many tunes but first I open a new animation then import the animation and it always works.