I've been a long time user of Xara products for creating graphics for my websites and recently upgraded to Xara Photo & Graphic Designer v9 (PGD). For many of my sites, I create a single large …
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“Unable to open URL. Cannot download the information you requested” error in Word/Excel
A client called me asking for help with a problem on one of their Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. They were creating content for their new website that I was in the process of building and wanted to …
Poor quality MP4 output from PowerDirector
I finally worked out what was causing the poor quality MP4 video output from PowerDirector 10 - even at very high bitrates. Turns out that the hardware video encoder in my ThinkPad T510 really …
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How to find the end of a line in Xara Photo and Graphics Designer
After spending nearly an hour checking hundreds (thousands?) of line points in a rather complex line in Xara Photo and Graphics Designer and still not being able to find where the line was broken - I …
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vBulletin v3.5.0 released
vBulletin v3.5.0 forum software went "Gold" today - finally out of testing and considered ready for production. This is good and bad. Good because there are some great new features in …