Xara :: Extrude Shapes In PNG / BMP Files

Sep 27, 2013

I'm thinking of buying Xara Designer Pro.

I can't seem to find any info about extruding shapes that are in PNG format etc.

For example, if I have a star shape in a PNG file (or BMP etc) is it possible to extrude it in Designer Pro? If the image file needs to be converted to another format

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I am not able to extrude closed polyline shapes. I get the following message:

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Cannot sweep or extrude non-planar objects.

Unable to extrude the selected object.

Other folks have opened my drawing – some can extrude, some get the same or similar message. I’ve tried re-building the shapes to extrude. It worked with one thing this morning and now it won’t extrude again.

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Apr 11, 2013

I've got a problem with the combine shapes > slice (cut) shapes. (Designer Pro X).

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But I am having some issues in exporting Xara files to either JPG or PNG.

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4. Is it possible to change the units and size of the artboard after the project has been created and worked on for a few days? If so, how?

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All 'old' .eps files already on the system can be opened correctly. The artist sending me the files is not doing anything different at their end. I'm not doing anything different at my end.

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