To hang on your Virtuous/Virtual Christmas Tree:
Baubles.xar
Marry Xmas
Acorn
To hang on your Virtuous/Virtual Christmas Tree:
Baubles.xar
Marry Xmas
Acorn
Acorn - installed Xara software: Cloud+/Pro+ and most others back through time (to CC's Artworks). Contact for technical remediation/consultancy for your web designs.
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if not vitreous....
merry christmas
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Acorn - installed Xara software: Cloud+/Pro+ and most others back through time (to CC's Artworks). Contact for technical remediation/consultancy for your web designs.
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Acorn - installed Xara software: Cloud+/Pro+ and most others back through time (to CC's Artworks). Contact for technical remediation/consultancy for your web designs.
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Hi Acorn, great balls!
Just a few observations on your xar files output.
I believe it's a long standing bug in Xara that changes circular fills to elliptical fills for some unknown reason, often when pasting attributes. Unfortunately this has the resulting effect that rather than creating an svg it creates an bitmap image instead.
Further to this xara's default image creation is set to "Let Xara decide the result automatically". With the introduction of svg export I believe this would be better set to a default of "Lossless compression PNG"
IMHO at present Xara's export is creating far more images (bitmaps) than are required.
DEMO
Egg
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Egg, thank you for the analysis.
Normally, I would agree that getting SVGs from a design is very important.
It was not done in this case as I left all the components exposed rather than a single Group so they could be quickly manipulated and taken apart by others.
The Elliptical Fill was not changed from a Circular one by a Xara Bug; I just chose it. I do know that this can happen but I usually have it down as one of my necessary checks.
One bauble also had a Shadow that Xara cannot yet handle as SVG. Again, I would use CSS for my own use but I kept this as a pure Xara design.
Ultimately, the white stars were mapped onto a sphere were always going to be a bitmap, a PNG, as selected by me, so I could change the background Fill and Colour.
I had thought of creating and distorting each star by hand to maintain the aesthetic but that is too much hassle.
Group each bauble and publish and be damned.
Acorn
Acorn - installed Xara software: Cloud+/Pro+ and most others back through time (to CC's Artworks). Contact for technical remediation/consultancy for your web designs.
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Completely understand Acorn. I was merely trying to point out to other TG users that whilst circular fills export as svg's elliptical fills export as bitmaps. Also that letting Xara choose the filetype (default jpg) creates a second unnecessary image where png with alpha does not.
The number of request to a server for downloads slows the page load time. Downloading a bitmap when it can be produced via svg without a download is slowing your sites download speed.
Egg
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