#Xara designer plugins pro#

In a large design with many effects, note that this can make printing much slower as each effect has to be re-generated at high resolution. With this setting, the effect will be automatically re-generated when required, at the most appropriate resolution.įor example, if you print a design containing Live Effects, any effects set to Automatic will be re-generated at print resolution if they are not already at that resolution or higher. You can set the resolution of a Live Effect to Automatic, instead of choosing a fixed DPI value. The higher the resolution, the longer it takes to generate or re-generate the effect (because it has to work with a much larger bitmap) and the more memory is required. If you require a higher resolution image, for example if you're printing or wanting to export a high-resolution bitmap, then you can increase this to 150 DPI or even higher.

When a Live Effects is locked the effect rotates with the object (Bottom Images).įor screen and web use it's best to leave the resolution at the default 96 DPI the same as the screen resolution. When a Live Effects is unlocked the effect rotates with the object (Top Images). Or would you want the horizontal ripple effect to be re-applied to your now rotated rectangle? If so, leave the effect unlocked. If you then rotated the shape, would you want the ripples to rotate with it? If so, lock the effect before the rotation. You can also lock a Live Effect and then when you resize or rotate the object the effect remains fixed, as if you were resizing/rotating a bitmap.Īs an example of this, imagine a plug-in that always applies horizontal ripples (the 'Television' Live Effect shown does something similar).Īpply this effect to a shape, and you'd then see horizontal lines across it. This means the underlying shape can't be edited. Old-style Photoshop plug-ins are Locked as soon as you apply them. This may not be what you want, so it's useful sometimes to be able to lock an effect.

#Xara designer plugins pro#

When you resize or rotate an object which has a Live Effect applied, Xtreme Pro takes this to be an edit and regenerates the effect.