Thanks a lot for your help!
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Thanks a lot for your help!
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I for one was glad to be of service to you, Sandy.
Did you get a chance to watch those video tutorials for which I added a link in a prior post?
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The "Things you may or may not know about the Shape Editor Tool", I'm about to watch them now.. This will definately help me, because I know very few about Xara.
Very good. Let me know how you get on or if you don't understand something.
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Handdrawn pointed me to your video to fill unclosed shapes. This was exactly what I needed to know. It's not in the help file, is it?
I wonder why Xara will show the closing line when zooming to 401% or more. Won't this confuse someone?
as I said in the other thread sandy - this is an 'unsupported' feature - that is it does not happen by design, it is if you like an 'unintended consequence' of the way group-join-break works in this instance
so of course the behaviour of the closing line on zoom is 'unintended' too..
you need to be aware that this is unsupported if you make use of it
it is likely that the closing line is there all the time, but is just not being rendered [displayed] to screen [or print?] at zooms below 401% and this might cause more unexpected occurance with further editing of that object
Last edited by handrawn; 07 February 2012 at 05:52 PM. Reason: grammer
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To be honest, I don't know what way to use now.
Handrawn, do you use this way of filling unclosed shapes when you use xara?
Bcire, do you use it always?
Angelize, do you use it?
Could those shapes break with Xara 8 or would the Xara developers help those who used the unsupported way?
I knew it from Illustrator or Corel I think. Maybe I like it because the line stays along with the line always. But a group would give me this benefit too.
And from this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...fT7Z69F9A&NR=1 I know now that from those many small line segments of the fox you could create a fill easily with "add shapes" and break.
Also, I think I've accidently found another way to create a filled unclosed object, because I did not use "join shapes" but only the shape editor itself and I ended up with an filled unclosed object too. It was rather unexpected.
with xara, I would usually do it the way Bob does it in the video you linked - I am a cartoonist too, and Bob has clearly demonstrated this method which suits cartooning well
there is no reason to panic about doing it the way Eric shows - just don't include the filled unclosed shapes in any groups and don't edit any filled unclosed shapes afterwards and it should be ok - it might be fine anyway.. but when I have the mod hat on I feel the need to point out possible pitfalls and, no, xara ltd would not [be expected to] help with unsupported features - that's what unsupported means in this context
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I agree with everything Steve just said.
No, I don't always do things that way. I tend to do things like Bob does them too (it is pretty handy).
I wouldn't be too frightened about this unsupported feature going away as it has been around for several incarnations of Xara products.
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