JUST RELEASED: An Update to Xara Web Designer

[DuaneW]

I do not know if this where I post but I just uploaded the new Xara update. The update was successfully installed but now when I click on "File/New from Content Catalog" a message states that "You need to be online to use this feature", I am online and in the middle of designing a website. I looked everywhere to see why only Xara will not connect to the internet and all my other programs do. Keep in mind this happened only after upgrading. Any suggestions. Thanks Duane

[RKissane]

Duane,

Try starting the program as an administrator to see if this corrects. Only need to do it once. right click on the program icon to run as administrator.

Ray

[DuaneW]

No that did not work, still get the same message...

[Rob-Xar]

I do not know if this where I post but I just uploaded the new Xara update. The update was successfully installed but now when I click on "File/New from Content Catalog" a message states that "You need to be online to use this feature", I am online and in the middle of designing a website. I looked everywhere to see why only Xara will not connect to the internet and all my other programs do. Keep in mind this happened only after upgrading. Any suggestions. Thanks Duane

This might sound silly but have you tried restarting your PC? If that doesn't fix it we can run some diagnostic tools and see what is happening in the background.

Thanks
Rob

[DuaneW]

This might sound silly but have you tried restarting your PC? If that doesn't fix it we can run some diagnostic tools and see what is happening in the background.

Thanks
Rob

I found the problem. When Xara was updating I did not close out the website that was being worked on. Somehow the update affected that feature. I went to the backup file and opened a previous backup (I setup my backup feature to keep 10 backups) and the link works fine now. If anyone is reading this, the backup feature in Xara is very valuable. It has saved me many, many times, what a great feature. Everyone who creates websites should at least have the feature set for 5 backups. Anyway thank you for responding to my situation. Duane

[garycwood84]

I have upgraded to the latest version.

Is there a deliberate difference in the way grouped graphics are exported? I have EPS logos in my file, and in the new version they are set to export components as separate graphics, rather than the group as a single graphic. Opening the same file in the older version, the objects are set to export as a group.

This is a real pain, because with a large site, it's going to take me ages to go through every group of graphics, in each variant of my site, and change the export option back to exporting groups as single graphics. Can this change be reverted in the software, or changed at the site level?

[Acorn]

I have upgraded to the latest version.

Is there a deliberate difference in the way grouped graphics are exported? I have EPS logos in my file, and in the new version they are set to export components as separate graphics, rather than the group as a single graphic. Opening the same file in the older version, the objects are set to export as a group.

This is a real pain, because with a large site, it's going to take me ages to go through every group of graphics, in each variant of my site, and change the export option back to exporting groups as single graphics. Can this change be reverted in the software, or changed at the site level?

Gary, this has impacted others in different ways. Xara is aware. I would hold off making changes to everything until Xara works out what to do.



Acorn

[garycwood84]

Thanks, Acorn. I'll watch this space, and avoid updating Xara on my laptop so I can use the older version to maintain websites for now...

[garycwood84]

Another problem: my vertical navigation bar has stopped working.

This live version of my site shows the export from version 16.0: www.sela-sheffield.org
Please adjust your browser width to see the mobile variants with vertical menu, and notice that it works.

This is an export from the same site from 16.1. Note that the vertical menu is broken: www.wood-net.co.uk/garywood/sela

[Acorn]

Another problem: my vertical navigation bar has stopped working.

This live version of my site shows the export from version 16.0: www.sela-sheffield.org
Please adjust your browser width to see the mobile variants with vertical menu, and notice that it works.

This is an export from the same site from 16.1. Note that the vertical menu is broken: www.wood-net.co.uk/garywood/sela

Have a view of https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...640#post606640, where I have tried to unravel the v16dot1 issue.

Acorn