Xara Desktop Application v17.0 is all Skewed

**Acorn** · 03 June 2020, 01:57 PM

Dear Xara...

How can you continue to get is so wrong?

Create a Rectangle.
Set up a Simple Linear Alt Rainbow Fill from one corner to another across the diagonal. Start Red and End Dark Magenta.

Clone and rotate 90⁰. Bug - the Fill Handles no longer move with the rectangle. The rectangle seems to be transformed into a Square.
Clone and Skew any angle on H or V axis - Bug - as above. The Fill is flipped vertically.

Your inability to deliver a clean version without introducing untold Bugs is mind-blowing.

I still have websites I dare not upgrade from v12!

This particular Bug Set has occurred since v16.3.

acorn

**Egg Bramhill** · 03 June 2020, 03:09 PM

I can't replicate that Acorn. (XDP17 & XDP+)

**Gypsyjoe** · 03 June 2020, 03:22 PM

I don't have XDP17 but tried it in XWDP17 and could not replicate it either Acorn Sorry no go.

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**Acorn** · 03 June 2020, 04:00 PM

Sorry both, did you then Preview?

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Acorn

**Gypsyjoe** · 03 June 2020, 04:13 PM

Sorry Acorn just tried preview in XWDP17 and in preview turned 90 degree into square and skewed not square but shortened immensely so you are correct!!!! Went back and tried in XDPX16 and worked like it is supposed to.

**Acorn** · 03 June 2020, 04:27 PM

Originally Posted by Gypsyjoe

Sorry Acorn just tried preview in XWDP17 and in preview turned 90 degree into square and skewed not square but shortened immensely so you are correct!!!! Went back and tried in XDPX16 and worked like it is supposed to.

GJ thanks. I am sorry I abridged my experience.

My distress is around finding this muck up in a live site and having to grovel and make good.

Acorn

**Egg Bramhill** · 03 June 2020, 07:45 PM

Ah! see what you mean now. I know we shouldn't need a workaround but if you convert to editable shapes it previews correctly.

**Gypsyjoe** · 03 June 2020, 09:38 PM

@Egg that might work for XDP17 but there is no such option in XWDP17 So you still have the same problem

**Egg Bramhill** · 03 June 2020, 10:05 PM

It's just another one of those ridiculous situations that have come about with Xara/Magix trying to monetise the software as much as possible Joe

**Acorn** · 03 June 2020, 10:19 PM

Originally Posted by Gypsyjoe

@Egg that might work for XDP17 but there is no such option in XWDP17 So you still have the same problem

GJ, you can get Editable shapes with XWDP.

Take any Rectangle, Ellipse or QuickShape. clone it and select both and Add Shapes.

Sadly, what I was building was a Template just using skewed Rectangles. These do not generate images just transformed SPANs and so are highly scalable with no real payload burden.

I cannot afford to build something that a later version mangles so I will have to revert to getting round it with CSS and checking it works across all browsers. Not simple as linear-gradients are not animatable across a transition.

Acorn