01. lines with arrowheads: well, I can reproduce it, but what the heck - just copy->paste the bare lines, select both with a marquee and add the arrowheads. Nothing spectecular IMHO.
02. guides: when I'm working on a 800 x 600 workspace, I need a 640 x 480 guide for screen designs to adjust the screen to the smallest available screens out there (there are more 640 x 480 monitors around than you would believe, and I definitely don't want to frustrate those users and force them to scroll left and right in addition to up and down). So I set up a giudes01 resembling the 640 x 480 screen, lock this layer, place the guides 1 layer unlocked on top of it, so that I can move these layers without accidentially moving the 640 x 480 - see example
If I am developing for FLASH, I place a 400 x 300 guides layer locked behind everything, or a 600 x 300 etc, whatever I need. Makes sense?
In addition, when I'm doing product design, the locked layer resembles a certain aspect ration, which saves a lot of work to re-calculate the dimensioning in my CAD applications (I import the vectors with *.ai format). Makes sense as well?
It's good to be able to move objects over a color filled rectangle in the background - they stop exactly at the 640 x 480 guides etc.
Enjoy XARA X.
ciao,
jens
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