Dear TalkGraphics Gurus,

I continue to be impressed by Xara Xtreme! And I really appreciate the fine help I received with my first question. Now it's time for the next challenge!

I have been playing with blends a little bit more. I really like that I can apply them to photos as well as vector objects. However I seem to have hit up against a problem. If I blend one photo to another, it works fine until I try to additionally blend along a curve. If I try to blend along a curve, the bitmap fill go haywire.

To reproduce this behavior, do the following:

1) Open a new document and paste in a photo. Position it in the lower left.
2) Duplicate the photo. Make it smaller and position it in the upper-right.
3) Blend from the first photo to the second one.

Note that the blend looks very nice and will behave properly if you change either endpoint object. Now,

4) Draw a curve over the blend.
5) Select both the curve and the blend, then click the blend tool.
6) Click the "Blend Along a Curve" button.

Notice that the bitmap fill is no longer behaving properly:

http://wjm.org/linked/blendgoof.jpg

Is this a bug? A limitation? Or is there an option I haven't learned yet to keep the bitmap fill in proper relationship to its bounding box?

Bill