Quote Originally Posted by Chris M View Post
So far, I have learnt that all the different blocks are basically just 2, presented as being a lot.
Chris, I had a chuckle. It's funny how my expose on Smart Line, tables and the like passes people by.

Tables call themselves "Financial" without any attempt to make them crush the numbers. 70 flavours of the one construct.
Charts run a different flavour of embedded data to Tables.
Fancy Buttons you can wave a stick and all they have is a different Line Profile. Xara be better and teach people how to alter your deigns, across the board.
I'm choking on Smoke fogs.
Whatever did a Photo Frame bring?
Twelve Triangles. They can even have 30 sides. None are scalene or obtuse; you have to fiddle them and then find those ones don't have rounding. Then when you rotate one, it explodes.
Four Pie Segments.
Two Web Blocks, well there were two Delivery Vans awaiting a load.
Few will snap to position with anything.

I'm amazed there's still only one Spiral.

Things should be turned on their head.
C:\Program Files\Xara\Xara Designer Pro+\basefiles\smartshapes\ folder should contain one example of every feature so those cut adrift with Magix gone could rebuild their own patterns.

For TG to be worth it for us and Xara, we need a reformat to easily flag products, versions and features.

Thank you. It's nice to have moan once in a while!

Acorn