Closing Xara

[xtom]

Same version DP+ and is closing as normal for me without asking.

[gwpriester]

XDA? Do you mean Pro+? If so, not problems with that here.

[Acorn]

Same version DP+ and is closing as normal for me without asking.

Thank you for advising. I'll have to chase down a good copy of Product-eng.cfg file...

Acorn

[Daniel]

Last time I visited TalkGraphics, the topic of conversation was what might happen if Xara Ltd/Gmbh/whatever closed and Designer Pro+ couldn't check its licence

Today, I see Acorn starting a topic "Closing Xara"

Jesus. My heart skipped a beat!

[Acorn]

Last time I visited TalkGraphics, the topic of conversation was what might happen if Xara Ltd/Gmbh/whatever closed and Designer Pro+ couldn't check its licence
Today, I see Acorn starting a topic "Closing Xara"
Jesus. My heart skipped a beat!

Newspaper sub-editors do it all the time, why not here?

"Dread, all about it!"

Acorn

[Acorn]

Same version DP+ and is closing as normal for me without asking.

xtom, thank you for your PM and copy of your Product_eng.cfg file.
I tried it today in place of mine and all is now working properly.

I immediately included my:
PDFManualLink=C:\Program Files\Xara\Xara Designer Pro+\HelpAndSupport\ENG\XaraDesignerProPlus.pdf
that allows me to invoke the previous Help > PDF Manual that Xara chopped.

Not everyone works always on-line and have a far more useful local PDF copy of the manual, even if it is out of date is still worth it.
The on-line approach is very cumbersome when searching for things.

It is very disappointing that Xara has not delivered an off-line help document, as was promised.

In XPro+, don't try this at home, it appears if you remove the new:
[OnlineHelp]
URLBase=https://helpandsupport.xara.com/index.htm,
the Help links mostly refer back to the compiled Help file, xarax.chm.
This has not been updated for a year now and so some of the links go to interesting places as I found out with my mangled configuration file.
For those interested, the CHM file is in C:\Program Files\Xara\Xara Designer Pro+\HelpAndSupport\ENG\.

Acorn