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Exporting PNG files with Alpha transparency from Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 9

Simon Hampel · 1st July, 2013 · 2 Comments

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

Simon Hampel · 13th March, 2013 · 17 Comments

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 …

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Poor quality MP4 output from PowerDirector

Simon Hampel · 14th March, 2012 · 4 Comments

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

Simon Hampel · 30th September, 2010 · Leave a Comment

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

Simon Hampel · 29th September, 2005 · Leave a Comment

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 …

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