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Werner, your wishlist:
#1. I too have asked for this.1. The skew angle of horizontally and vertically skewed objects should be displayed and changeable in the info bar.It's now only horizontally displayed and will reset to 0 after a change. If I set it to 22° it should show 22°.
2. I want to change/display the size of rounded corners (rectangle, quickshape) in units (changed in any unit anddisplayed in current unit).
3. I want to insert the "number of pages" to set up a pagecouter like "Side 1 from 10".
4. Multiobjekt tools like "Multi-rotation-tool" and "Multi-scale-tool". Every objekt would be separetly changed in one go.
5. Relicate-tool (copy the selected objekt horizontally an vertically like a labels sheet).
6. Standard vector-fill (like the Hatch-Pro-Tool from ArtWorks).
#2. These are currently in the range [0..1] that align with CSS border-radius. Unfortunately Xara fails here as you may discover when you add wide Line widths; Xra renders as dimensions in pixels rather than percentages and get the calculation wrong. Also reported.
#3. Now available in XPro+ so it will get to your XDA in due course when Magix decides.
#4. Having this would be useful.
#5. XPro+ and possibly XDPXv19 has this with Smart Duplicate.
#6. Again in XPro+ and XDPXv19, we have the opportunity to have the results of intersecting Shapes as SVG. Xara has yet to achieve Repeating Fills that remain as vector, from which one could build up a hatch.
The Xara approach to handling text justification is a mess.
When you include Paragraph or Text Backgrounds, or worse Borders, the mash together highlights all the problems you have found.
Xara have to fix text handling first that works properly in PDF exports and HTML rendering.
I feel your pain.
Acorn
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Here's the text box in question - thanks for taking a look. I deleted some of the tabs I'm using to force the color to be full-width (the ones with full-width color still have those tabs).
temp.xar
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Last edited by SirGeremiah; 28 May 2022 at 03:50 PM. Reason: mispost
I'm not sure I understand the second line. Are those separate containers for text (separate from the text line, which I keep referring to as a text box)?
The line of text doesn't span the entire width (and none will - as you can see in the file I later posted, each entry is a single line). My understanding from the documentation (which used a single-line paragraph, as well) was that the paragraph background should always use the full available width, rather than the width of the text.
I also don't understand the reference to the font height.
If you select the text Tool and just click and type, you create a Text Line; the more you type, the longer it gets.
If you click and drag horizontally, you create a Text Column. This word-wraps and grows downwards.
If you drag diagonally, you create a Text Area. Text Areas can flow over into other text areas or create new pages for your text.
The last two make use of Paragraph Backgrounds.
The first only shows a small part under the words that is bigger than the text background when applied.
A Paragraph Background is left edge to right edge of the bounding box.
Text background is only under what you have typed.
Yes, you are using a Text Line and Paragraph Background incorrectly.
Use the text Tool:
- Highlight all the text and Copy.
- Click and drag diagonally to a similar box size of the current text. This is a Text Area.
- Paste.
- Job done.
Acorn
Acorn - installed Xara software: Cloud+/Pro+ and most others back through time (to CC's Artworks). Contact for technical remediation/consultancy for your web designs.
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I just selected all the text and then went through the steps I posted earlier [selecting a red] and it worked:
temp with red.xar
maybe the original is a mish-mash of colourbar right clicks....
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Hello Acorn,
#5. Smart Duplicate is a beginning but not very usable. If I could define the horizontal distance to right (+) / left (-) and the vertical distance down (+) / up (-) than its perfect.
Now it is easier to set a distance in the properties, clone and move, clone and move and so on.
Werner
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