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

[shiphen]

Egg, I will stick my neck out here and suggest that does not work.
It will if you Export the file as filename.WIX as I mentioned earlier.

@handrawn - unencoded is the plain text. MS Windows and very few programs can find formatting code plus text externally. Some programs are quite limited here as well.

@shipen

1. MS offer up how third parties can create a filter for their file types. PDFs were unsearchable until someone created such a filter. Open up a PDF, DOCX, XAR file in a plain text editor and all you see is gibberish.

2. The filter to decode text may not exist for the majority of file extensions out there. Companies exist on this and have their own proprietary products to perform the decode.

3. Xara has published its file format and has delivered the WIX file extension for such a purpose. A WIX file can be edited in a Xara Desktop application.

Bottom Line. Any XAR file is searchable within its Xara Desktop application > Find and Replace (Ctrl+F). If you are after a global search for a word or phrase across a collection of XAR files then you must save the version out as a WIX format or publish and search in that or download the PDF (XDPX, XDP+). My bottom line is, if you need to search for text, you must create the right output file.

Acorn

Acorn. Yes, I hear you loud and clear. But there is no way on God's Earth that I (and I suspect most all but the most evangelical Xara users) will bother to save a special file of any type just to make their Xara files searchable.
Early adopters, hard-core geeks & True Believers, yes. But "normal" / "mainstream" users simply don't have time for that sort of thing. They just aren't interested in complicated learning curves. Forget it.

No, the only hope is that Xara do whatever it takes themselves.

A

[shiphen]

Shipen, try this. Create an A4 portrait page. Just create the text "Shipen". Save.
Now open the .xar file in Notepad & search for "Shipen".

Challenge accepted!

And yes, as expected Notepad can't find the text string.

...And your point is?

J


PS Would it help if Xara were to change their format so that there is a copy of all the text inside any .XAR document attached to the end of the .XAR file as raw ASCII??