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    Default Re: Christmas Virtual Baubles

    Quote Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill View Post
    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.

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    Egg, I watched your demo a couple of times and still do not understand how that was done I had seen thopse baubles before and wondered I thought maybe the graphic was made then using the mold tool to turn it into the baubles wanted.
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    Default Re: Christmas Virtual Baubles

    Hi Larry, I didn't do the bauble shapes, they where in a xar file posted by Acorn. However they are fairly simple to make using the mould tool, in particular the Circular Envelope mould.

    Hope you can make sense of this (Sorry missed out the Xara window tool sets) :

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    Default Re: Christmas Virtual Baubles

    Quote Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill View Post
    Hi Larry, I didn't do the bauble shapes, they where in a xar file posted by Acorn. However they are fairly simple to make using the mould tool, in particular the Circular Envelope mould.
    Hope you can make sense of this (Sorry missed out the Xara window tool sets) :
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    Egg, I'll certainly be using Ctrl+1+U a lot more.
    What will make your construction far faster is the use of the new Smart Duplication control.

    Thank you for the video.

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    Default Re: Christmas Virtual Baubles

    Ctrl+1+U
    ? Sorry, not with you there Acorn
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    Default Re: Christmas Virtual Baubles

    Quote Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill View Post
    ? Sorry, not with you there Acorn
    After using a Mould, press Ctrl+1+U, to Add Shapes and Ungroup, all in one go, resulting an a Shape that is rendered as an SVG object.
    Does the same with a Contour or Bevel or Spiral.
    A Blend needs Ctrl+1+U+U. Same with Text Inside but you end up with the Shape duplicated in the text's colour.
    A Extrusion becomes a Bitmap after you use Ctrl+1.

    If you have a complex repeat of a pattern, like a bauble, than breaking the Mould and intersecting All Shapes when selecting with a Clone or another under-shape separates out the Shape into all its sub-parts. Very cleanly and very quickly and most beneficial now SVGs are the output.

    The other benefit is no message about destroying a SmartShape. It is a Bug, I sure, that Ctrl+1 immediately deletes a SmartTable.

    Acorn
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    Default Re: Christmas Virtual Baubles

    Thank you, Egg your demo was most helpful and reinforced what I thought, but took it a step further.
    Thank you Acorn for providing the baubles.
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    Default Re: Christmas Virtual Baubles

    Quote Originally Posted by Acorn View Post
    After using a Mould, press Ctrl+1+U, to Add Shapes and Ungroup, all in one go, resulting an a Shape that is rendered as an SVG object.
    Does the same with a Contour or Bevel or Spiral.
    A Blend needs Ctrl+1+U+U. Same with Text Inside but you end up with the Shape duplicated in the text's colour.
    A Extrusion becomes a Bitmap after you use Ctrl+1.

    If you have a complex repeat of a pattern, like a bauble, than breaking the Mould and intersecting All Shapes when selecting with a Clone or another under-shape separates out the Shape into all its sub-parts. Very cleanly and very quickly and most beneficial now SVGs are the output.

    The other benefit is no message about destroying a suretyship. It is a Bug, I sure, that Ctrl+1 immediately deletes a SmartTable.

    Acorn
    thank you Acorn useful tip.
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    Default Re: Christmas Virtual Baubles

    After using a Mould, press Ctrl+1+U, to Add Shapes and Ungroup, all in one go, resulting an a Shape that is rendered as an SVG object.
    Does the same with a Contour or Bevel or Spiral.
    A Blend needs Ctrl+1+U+U. Same with Text Inside but you end up with the Shape duplicated in the text's colour.
    A Extrusion becomes a Bitmap after you use Ctrl+1.
    Thanks for the clarification Acorn. I didn't ask the question without further searching. Xara's new online Keyboard Shortcut has no mention of these shortcuts. Egg
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    Default Re: Christmas Virtual Baubles

    Cheers Larry
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    Default Re: Christmas Virtual Baubles

    Quote Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill View Post
    Thanks for the clarification Acorn. I didn't ask the question without further searching. Xara's new online Keyboard Shortcut has no mention of these shortcuts. Egg
    Egg, Ctrl+1 and Ctrl+U are both in https://helpandsupport.xara.com/xara..._keyboard.html .
    When you press Ctrl+1+U, this is just completing the second action without releasing the control key.
    The repeats are just unpacking levels of Grouping.

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