New Image Filename Feature

[Acorn]

Dear Xara...

Could we please have any sort of response or update on this topic:

1. https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...ming-Feature-I
2. https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...ing-Feature-II
3. https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...ng-Feature-III
4. https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...ing-Feature-IV

Not a single Xara employee has visited these Threads unless they are not signing in to do so.

For a company that proclaims TG is their go-to "Online forum" [Help > More [app] > Online forum] and fails to engage is reprehensible.
To waste three months does not make your Problem go away; hiding is not a solution.

The tl:dr of this Issue:

• A single shape has an Image Filename applied. Regardless of Effects applied after this, the same Image Filename should be rendered. Bug - You apply an arbitrary number affix that changes on where the design has been closed and re-opened.
• Clones of the same shape render with one Image Filename. Scale any Clone. Bug - You create an affixed additional file. Your underlying code is CSS, applying different Width/ Height and transforms (scaling, rounding, shadows); none of these require another file.
• Custom bullets fail dramatically. Bug - Your internal database loses filename references and applies the wrong name to the wrong image as well as affixing lots of numbers.
• Bug - Placing a shape on non-integer co-ordinates results in an affixed additional file.

Clearly, you have a fundamental design failure that probably precedes the Image Filenaming Feature but Huh!

328 images generated for a SmartTable:



Facebook alone has 40 images (fb+fb[1..9].webp|.png) where one Font Awesome symbol or one SVG would do.
20 separate image fetches. Won't Google web core Vitals be pleased!

When I am trying to deliver professional websites, I am being floundered by this sloppiness.
It is not just the extra files, it is the randomness and having to second-guess what it actually rendered; this is destroying or forcing code scripts and CSS coding to new heights and absurdity.

Acorn

[Egg Bramhill]

I can only second you regarding these issues and the total silence from Xara.