My bad. Back to Web Designer chat with this one.
My bad. Back to Web Designer chat with this one.
Gary W. Priester
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Egg
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To answer my own question, it seems that navbars are rendered as graphics, including the text!!!!
Is there a way of creating navbars that DO scale correctly?
There are lots of different ways to achieve the outcome, but one of my personal preferences is to create a button from scratch and to give the text label the name of "htmltext"
Have a play with the attached Xara document. The Help manual covers this fairly well, though not the bit about naming the text label.
This is just one way - there are many more.
Gary
There is. Indeed I steer clear of Xara's navbar because of this reason which is made even worse if you use 'scale to fit'.
I attach two xar files, one using Xara's navbar, the second which doesn't create images for buttons.
Last edited by Egg Bramhill; 09 January 2021 at 02:19 PM. Reason: Added .xar files
Egg
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Thanks everyone I'll give that a look.
I've been using Xara Photo & Graphic Designer (and it's earlier incarnations) for some years to create the graphics for various things, but for the web I've been using WYSIWYG Web Builder.
It's a pretty good program with loads of features for a small amount of money, but the WYSIWYG doesn't always work as I expect. I've raised some issues over the years with the author, but mostly the reply is "that's the way the framework I use works, so I can't change anything.
Therefore I decided to give Web Designer a go. There's a bit of a learning curve as Web Builder & Web Designer go about things in different ways, and Web Builder has a large amount of built-in widgets that I have yet to figure out if Web Designer has, or if I have to build my own.
In the experiments so far, the WYSIWYG aspect of Web Designer is spot on. Although my web site is just documentation for my open source software library, I want it to look good too.
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