Can Windows10 text search find text inside a .XAR document?

[handrawn]

that sounds like very good advice

[capellan]

After reading the Xara Format Document http://http://site.xara.com/support/...atDocument.pdf
I am sure that Magix/Xara could provide a plugin to search inside Xara documents.

Notice that on installation, Xara install a program that allows Windows to read the preview bitmap of the Xara document.

If I understood well the Xara format manual, Xara files are compressed using the zlib format, so a plugin that reads inside Xara documents must be able to uncompress each one of these zlib compressed records inside the file and read the text.

By the way, Does wix format works well in all Xara versions?
In my computer, only Xara x1 could read and write wix files.
The rest could not write wix files but could read them.

Al

[handrawn]

wix is an export format - it's there in my xdpx15.1 - afaik it's always been there

reading the preview bitmap does not, afaik, require the whole xar to be uncompressed, it is a specific function that integrates with the window OS

maybe it is possible for xara to write a plugin, but that is not to say it there would be money in it for them...

[handrawn]

capellan - your link is broken....

[Acorn]

Al, WIX is Xara's internal unpacked format. All Pro versions can export WIX.
Text exists in Links, Alt Text, Layers, Pages, etc, and Text Objects including Text Inside & Placeholders. Gaining a coherent understanding of these is difficult.
I have tried.

Acorn

@handrawn - strip off the duplicate protocol.

[handrawn]

yes I got there eventually, thanks

along the way I got to https.com, which was confusing

[capellan]

Al, WIX is Xara's internal unpacked format. All Pro versions can export WIX.
Text exists in Links, Alt Text, Layers, Pages, etc, and Text Objects including Text Inside & Placeholders. Gaining a coherent understanding of these is difficult.
I have tried.

Acorn

Hi Acorn,

Did you try to export and reopen wix files from
every version that you have installed?

In my computer, only Xara X1 could export and read
wix files. All other versions only read, but do not export.

I have two more Xara versions that are not installed.
Let me try with these versions too.

By the way Acorn, Do you know if anyone have tried to create Xara files
using scripting programming languages, like python or javascript?

Al

[handrawn]

I fixed your link, I think

http://site.xara.com/support/docs/we...atDocument.pdf