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SHAREWARE II ORMENTE I ORMENTE II SL-BLUR SL-SLICE SS_BLUR SS-EMBOSS SS_MOULD SS_SEARCH SEANS 24-BIT MASK SEANS FILTERS TEMPLATES TONY ROBERTS MOLDS IVAN LOUETTE'S ART XPAL SPX-E FILLS AND BRUSHES |
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This page provides descriptions of, and download links for, the best shareware and freeware produced by Xara users for Xara users. These mini-applications and plug-in filters vastly enhance Xara’s capabilities If you have created a plug-in filter or a mini-application that you would like to share with the Xara community contact us and provide a description of your Xara helper. |
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xxfx from Lloyd (sculptex) A standalone application to create Xara file content that would be too time consuming or fiddly to create in Xara itself (such as the logo shown above). Plus additional complementary features, including:
Click here to download the Zipped file.(1.12 MB) |
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Dmitry Malutin’s MicroScan Now you can scan images into Xtreme. Well, almost. MicroScan is a stand-alone utility that locates and activates your scanner and scans the image. The scanned bitmap is automatically placed in the clipboard and can be pasted (Ctrl v) into Xtreme. Quick Scan launches a scan of your entire scanner window in B/W, Grayscale or RGB and at resolutions ranging from 75-2400dpi. Custom Scan launches your scanners own utility and gives you more options. Scanned images may also be saved in several file formats. Click here to download MicroScan. Download the Zipped file, double click on the icon and install the program. A big thank you to Dmitry for this and all of his excellent Xara utilities. Click here to visit Dmitry’s website.
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Dmitry Malutin’s raster Paste photos into raster and then create rasterized images. raster converts the photo into vector dots (you determine the size) so fast you won’t believe it happened! There are a variety of settings. Experiment. And have fun! Click here to download raster.zip. Click here to visit Dmitry’s website.
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Xara XX Tune can save a BAK backup file every time you save your file. Blob size refers to the size of the control handles. A big thank you to Dmitry for this invaluable contribution. Click here to download the file. (24K) |
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SLEDGER’S REGISTRY HACKS Steve Ledger has provided a series of executable files that turn various Xtreme 4.0 features on and off. In addition, Steve has a mini-tutorial here for adding a folder with these files available on your taskbar (XP and Vista). Click here to download the Zipped file.
These mini-utilities let you have different sized pages in a multipage document, turn the font list off and on, and make backup files (.bak) and more. |
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Bill Taylor’s Photo Drag and Drop the Old Way FIX: One of the dubious workflow improvements in Xtreme and Xtreme Pro versions 3.2 + is a change in the behavior when a photo is applied as a bitmap to a shape or another photo. In the good old days, when you applied a photo as a fill or dragged and dropped a photo onto another photo to change it, the fill or dropped image retained the proportions of the previous photo. Now any time you apply a bitmap as a fill or drag and drop it onto a photo or shape, the photo automatically resizes to the maximum height or width. There is a Registry fix suggested in this recent Xtreme Conference thread by Phil from Xara. It involves resetting certain settings in the mysterious Registry, something that should not be done unless you know what you are doing. This is where Bill Taylor (Soquili) comes in to save us all. For those that would prefer not to personally edit the registry the attached ResetFillBehavior.zip file contains a .reg file. Unzip the .reg to a folder on your hard drive. Using Windows Explorer or My Computer double click on the file's icon. You will be asked if you want to add the information to the Registry. Answer YES and the changes will be made for you. Answer NO and the changes will not be made. Simple enough. Click here to download the file. Thanks Bill. We owe you! |
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Ron Muncy has created a screen saver from the Flash Animation July 2007 Xara Xtreme Tutorial. Download the Zip file, then follow the instructions in the Read me text file. Click here to download the file. (!.07MB) |
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You can restore the old use of the space bar as a shortcut to the Selector tool. Xara Xtreme 3.2 Download CopyHotkeysIni Xara Xtreme Pro 3.2 Use the Xtreme Pro 3.2 Shortcuts Utility This has been covered in some detail on Page 5 (near the bottom of the page) in Workbook 60. |
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ALL IS NOT LOST!!! Many of us has experienced the frustration of not being able to open a XAR file that for some mysterious reason has become corrupted. Well, all may not be lost. Gerry I from the Xara Ltd. Development Group has come up with something that might recover part or all of your corrupted file. It is called Expander.XAR. Here’s how it works. Extract the ExpanderXar.exe program from the archive (the ZIP file) to the same folder as the bad *.xar file. Select Start\Run and type cmd and hit Return (Enter). Change directory to the correct folder, for example cd C:\MyXarFiles (cd is the command to change the directory to the folder (path name) where your corrupt file is languishing. Run the utility by keying in: expandxar mybadfile.xar output.xar If an output file is generated (output.xar in the above case) then try loading it into Xtreme, ignoring warnings about unrecognized tags. |
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German Keyboard Shortcuts - Tomcat has created a chart of all the Xara keyboard shortcuts in German with instructions for making a 3-sided stand up card for easy viewing. Click here to download 1 ZIP file of 2 Flash SWF files (68K). If you need to download the latest Flash Player, click here.
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Frantisek Grebenicek has created a Java based utility SpiroJ that creates circular patterns like the one shown above. To run this you need Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 1.4.x or later (Sun Microsystems JRE 1.4.2 is recommended) which you can download here. Unzip the contents to a new folder. Open the folder, find the SpiroJ.jar file and double click the icon. Click the New Default Design icon to start and press the Calc button to apply your changes. Click Export to export the design. Ignore the error message when you import the file into Xara. There is an HTML file in the DOC folder if you need documentation. Click here to download SpiroJ (184K)
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(January 07) Dmitry Malutin had added more refinements for his Font Seeker a utility that lists all the installed fonts on your computer. Key in some sample text, then every font you select is shown with your text. JUST ADDED You can drag and drop a font sample onto the page. Then copy and paste the attributes to any selected text. You can also select fonts by Character Sets, Font Type and Style in the expanded menu. Because this utility changes frequently, and because there are many more terrific free utilities at Dmitry’s website, this link will take you directly to Dmitry’s site. Click here to download (186K). |
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UPDATE: John Horn has generously decided to make Xeus Bitmap Corrector a freeware product. If you download the utility, and you find it useful, send John an e-mail and let him know. Creating Xeus is a LOT of work! Click here to go to the Xeus home page where you can get more information and download your free 7-day trial version. (710K) Click here for tutorials. |
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NEW VERSION 1.2 - 27 Sept 04 Now XetupX does periodic backups of your Xara files. For this to happen, Xara must be the active window and XetupX must remain open (you can minimize the utility). Click here to download XetupX (230K). Bug fix - autosave feature corrected. |
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Click here for a tutorial and to go to the download page. |
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I could take up a few pages and fumble around trying to explain what XColor does. But that would be foolish when Egg Bramhill has already done it for you. Click here to see Egg’s tutorial, then Click here to download your own free copy of XColor. (Zipped file size is around 600K).
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SHAREWARE II ORMENTE I ORMENTE II SL-BLUR SL-SLICE SS_BLUR SS-EMBOSS SS_MOULD SS_SEARCH SEANS 24-BIT MASK SEANS FILTERS TEMPLATES TONY ROBERTS MOLDS IVAN LOUETTE'S ART XPAL SPX-E FILLS AND BRUSHES |