Xara contours produce errors in WD
Hi,
I paste contours from the latest Xtreme into WD. This usually works well, but later when I clone them in WD I am getting program errors. They happen randomly but quite frequently. They haven't crashed WD yet, but it takes a while to get a rid of the error pop ups. Best solution seems to be to use "Save as...".
Hoping that this gets taken care of someday here is the silly reason why I use contours. Usually I don't need them for artistic reasons, but for faking 1 pixel lines in rectangles. I use 10 pixel grid with snapping on and it is really fast and accurate way of resizing boxes, except that regular 1 pix lines add extra width/height to these boxes when they get rendered as bitmaps. Then the interface developers come and ask me if I really intended the box width to be 301 pixels. I say no, it should be 300 pixels but I was lazy because I did not bother using contours in Xara but used lines which are rendered in the middle of the vector.
So please, Xara...add stroke placement into the Line Gallery someday soon.
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