XaraLX crashes when opening saved Xar file and working on it

[Clinton Wright]

To whom it may concern,

With the latest distributions and earlier versions of Ubuntu I have noticed that XaraLX tends to crash once you have saved a xar drawing file and open it again later to do more work on it. It is almost constantly a problem. I have seemed to find a workaround the problem, which also does not work everytime, but if I delete the .xaralx and .xaralxfilters folders in the Home Folder and reopen XaraLX it will open my saved file and I can work on it without hassle. This does not work everytime.

For example. Make some text in XaraLX, give it an emboss, add a shadow to it. Make a couple of copies of that object. Save the xar file. Close Xara and reopen the saved file. Now try to play around with the shadow, emboss of add more objects from scratch to that file. With various versions of Ubuntu, the interface of XaraLX freezes up but the rest of the Ubuntu system is working fine. I can force quit Xara, but if I try open again and repeat, crash again. When I say crash it does not close, it just stays stuck and frozen so that anything you click on its interface just does not respond.

Please can you guys have a look into this. I personally believe this is lack of development on Xara side because that they have not updated the program since who knows when. Its the same version I used when I first started using Linux about 2 1/2 years ago.

Thank you kindly, your assistance and input in this matter is highly appreciated. I really enjoy using XaraLX and it my favourite vector drawing program that I use all the time but its just so unstable.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: xaralx 0.7r1785-3ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-22.35-generic-pae 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-22-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue May 8 13:33:35 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta i386 (20120405)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_ZA:en
 TERM=xterm
 LANG=en_ZA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xaralx
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)