Re: [artworks] Artistic LInes in Xara
- From: Steve Fryatt <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: artworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Martin Wuerthner <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 12:46:58 +0100
On 12 Oct, Martin Wuerthner wrote in message
<mpro.mbs399004i20904zs.lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Richard Ashbery <riscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I've just done a talk at Wakefield RISC OS computer club (WROCC)
> > illustrating how Artistic Lines can be used to embellish a cartoon
> > character. One of the members has raised this point......
> >
> > "In Xara it appears as an editable shape, but of course I cannot treat
> > it as a line. I am intrigued as to how the new version of Artworks
> > 'knows' that it is an artistic line rather than just an editable shape"
>
> I am not quite sure where Xara comes into it. Maybe you have left out some
> important information? Is this about exporting a file with artistic lines
> from ArtWorks as a PDF and importing it into Xara? Then, of course, there
> is no way to get the information across because PDF does not have the
> concept of artistic lines. PDF is only concerned with how things look, not
> with how they can be edited, and from a rendering point of view there is
> no difference between an artistic line and its resulting enclosing shape.
I can't remember the context of the question, but IIRC we had drifted off
into a discussion of how the lines "worked" and whether AW was treating them
as proper lines with wobbly edges or as filled shapes.
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Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England
http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/
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