MAGIX Xara Designer Pro 7.0 User manual

Support

If you need some help using this program, here are some sources of information that may be of use:



Program help - Choose Help topics from the Help menu to open Xara Designer Pro 7 help

(containing hundreds of pages of information).



Status line - Try reading the text on the status line at the bottom of the main Xara Designer Pro

7 window. It always describes what actions are currently possible and what they will do (even

during drags), and helps you learn to use the <Programmnam tools. It also gives details of what

buttons and controls do as you move the pointer over them. See Status Line for more details.



ToolTips - If you hold the mouse pointer over a button or control for a short while, then small

message appears telling you what it does.



Menus - If you want to know what a menu item does, highlight it and press "F1".



Dialog boxes - If you want to know what a dialog box does or how to use it, click "Help".



Movies - There are demo movies to help you make the most of Xara Designer Pro 7. Choose

Movies from the Help menu to view a list of available movies or click here to view a list of

available movies.



The TalkGraphics forums - You can share tips and ideas, ask questions or offer solutions to

other Xara Designer Pro 7 users at the TalkGraphics forum (www.talkgraphics.com), which also

includes many other graphics related forums.



Xara Xone - Visit the Xara Xone (www.xaraxone.com) for a host of excellent Xara Designer

Pro 7 support resources, including over ten years of Xara Designer tutorials, hints & tips,

featured artists, and Xara shareware



"The Outsider" newsletter (www.xara.com/outsider) - Subscribe to our monthly newsletter

"The Outsider" (with monthly tutorials and tips, offers, inspirational art, and more).



Join the Xara community on Facebook or follow our news on Twitter.

Support website

http://support.xara .com

Our own support site offers comprehensive FAQ page (frequently asked questions) which is constantly

updated and available 24 hours, 7 days a week; always the best source for instant answers. You can also

contact our technical support staff using the form on this page, if you cannot find the answer to your

question!

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Purchasing and unlocking

Xara Designer Pro 7

When you run the downloaded trial version of Xara Designer Pro 7, the start screen will present you

with three options. Check the option you require and you will be presented with further instructions.

Activate with serial number

Select this option if you have already purchased your copy of Designer Pro and enter the serial number

that you were given in the email confirming your purchase. Enter your email address so your copy can be

registered (if you have already registered this will be ignored). Then click Register Online and

Activate

.

Purchase online.

Select this option if you would like to purchase a copy of Designer Pro. You will be given an serial

number when you purchase.

Continue using trial

Select this option if you would like to continue using the free trial. To the right of this option it will tell you

how many days of the trial you have left. Then click Continue trial

.

Important note

: Please keep a record of the email address and password you used when purchasing Xara Designer Pro

7 since you may need them in the future, for example if you wish to upgrade.

Other ways to purchase

If you do not have the trial you can order directly on our website www.xara.com/store

and you will be given a serial number that can be used to unlock the trial later.

Xara titles are great value for the money, but we offer further generous discounts to academic

establishments on all our products. You can find details on our website.

Affiliate Program

Xara Designer Pro 7 page templates include a small 'Made with Xara' link at the bottom. You can easily

delete this link if you don't want it, but if you leave it on your published website you can earn commission

from customers introduced to Xara through your links, or you can have that commission donated to

charity. Select "Help" > "Affiliate Program"

to find out more or, if you are already an affiliate, to change your commission settings.

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What's new in Xara Designer

Pro 7 ?

In this chapter

General

Web Authoring / Web Publishing

Photo

Other minor enhancements

General



Live Copies give you a dynamic new way of linking multiple copies of an object so that if one

changes, they all do. Similar to repeating objects, Live Copies are however more powerful. You

can reposition, resize and transform each Live Copy independently.



Brand new 'magic snap' for object alignment. Xara Designer Pro 7 now provides 'magic'

magnetic object snapping. As you drag an object, it 'snaps' to points and lines of interest nearby

and indicates what it has snapped to by displaying dynamic snap lines and points. This makes it

easy to align objects with each other, or with guidelines or the page center or edges.



Advanced non-axis aligned snapping. You can now also align to lines that are neither vertical or

horizontal.



Enhanced ease of use. Xara Designer Pro 7 galleries now give faster access to the information

you need:

o

A new default Page & Layer Gallery 'pages' mode displays a narrow list of page thumbnails

? for easy page selection and access.

o

Designer Pro initially displays an uncluttered single page view. Use the Page & Layer Gallery

to quickly move to different pages, or switch to multi-page view by right clicking on the page

and selecting the multi-page view option on the menu.



Improved embedding of graphics into flowing text. Creating anchored objects is now a one-click

action and objects that you anchor in text can now also repel text, helping you create a

wrap-around effect easily. Repel margins can also now be defined separately for the margin

width and height. And anchored objects can be constrained to move vertically only, which is very

useful where you have objects to the right or left of the text that need to move only up and

down.



New paste operations bring much more flexibility to pasting operations, allowing Paste position,

Paste size, Paste replacing selection, Paste in current layer and Paste in place in current layer.



Cut, copy & paste of whole pages. You can now cut, copy and paste whole pages both within

and between documents.



Edit inside for easy editing of grouped objects. Double-click on a group or other composite

object type to edit it in a separate document window.



Tabbed document windows. Tabs at the top of the Designer Pro window show clearly which

document you are currently viewing, the document type and whether there are unsaved changes.

See at a glance which documents you have currently open and gain access to them by just

clicking on the document tab.



New gallery system supports fly-out galleries for instant viewing and flexible docking

options. A new gallery bar gives instant access to all galleries, which now fly out as you hover

the mouse pointer over a new gallery bar. It's easy to move galleries around the workspace, and

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you can pin and dock them wherever you want, either individually or in groups or 'stacks' on top

of each other.



Quick alignment of selected objects is made possible by the new right click menu option 'Align'.

This enables you to directly align multiple objects horizontally and vertically, without having to

open the alignment dialog.



Export animation documents as AVI files. Xara Designer Pro 7 now allows you to export any

animation document as an AVI file, or even an AVI with transparency, helping you create your

own web-ready movie content.



HTML 5 video. MP4 movie files added to your website will now play without Flash installed if

the browser supports HTML5 video, so movies play on iOS devices such as iPhones and iPads.

Web Authoring / Web Publishing



New widgets. Make your websites eye-catching and dynamic with our new smart widgets that

enable you to add an advanced selection of slick photo and text animations to your web pages

without the need for coding knowledge. More widgets will be automatically downloaded and

added to your gallery over time.



Presentation websites. Create web-based 'slide-show' style presentations that your website

visitors can step through using the keyboard arrow keys. Apply animated transition effects as

each step and page is displayed. You can also easily remotely host a web meeting (a Webinar) to

showcase your presentation, step by step and page by page, to a group of invited participants.



New animated transition effects for layers and page links. Xara Designer Pro 7 makes it easy

to add a wide range of animated effects to the layers and page links in your website. You can

add animated transitions to any page link or pop-up layer in your web pages.



Intelligent repeating headers / footers / watermarks. Xara Designer Pro 7 now automatically

updates all occurrences of a repeating object when you edit it, so you don't have to manually

update when you make a change. When one instance of a repeating object is edited, the updates

appear instantly on all other instances of that object on other pages of the document. What's

more, Xara Designer Pro 7 is smart about positioning, so objects in the top half of the page are

positioned on other pages relative to the top of the page, and objects near the bottom are

positioned relative to the bottom of the page, irrespective of page sizes.



Add individuality to your web page browser tabs using 'favicons'. Xara Designer Pro 7 now

supports the addition of favicons, allowing you to customize the tabs of your web pages by

displaying a custom graphic, such as a logo, on the document browser tab.



Sitemap support. You can now automatically generate a sitemap for submission to search engines

to assist them with the crawling of your website when you publish it.



Built-in preview window now includes navigation buttons. The navigation buttons in the top bar

of the preview window allow you to move back or forward, just like in a web browser, and the

Home button returns you to the page you started the preview on.



Quickly preview your pages in the most popular web browsers. If you have Firefox, Internet

Explorer, Opera, Safari or Chrome installed, you can preview exactly how your page will appear

in each of these popular web browsers with one click.



Preview your web page in full screen by clicking the new View Full Screen button in Xara

Designer Pro 7's built-in Preview window. When you next use preview, Xara Designer Pro 7

remembers the last used mode (normal, maximized or full screen). and displays subsequent

previews in the same way.



Explore your FTP web space from within Xara Designer Pro 7. You can browse through and

delete files and folders on your FTP server using Xara Designer Pro 7's built-in Web Space

Explorer.



A new range of templates gives you a greater design choice when creating your websites in Xara

Page 4

Designer Pro 7.

Photo



Photo Magic Erase now allows you to rapidly and effectively erase unwanted objects from your

photos even faster. Just click a button and Xara Designer Pro 7 automatically finds a suitable part

of the image to clone over the top of anything you select. Don't like it? Just click again! Xara

Designer Pro 7 shows you a series of possibilities, which you can scroll through until you find a

replacement that suits.



The Optimize photo dialog now includes the option to maintain the photo's current resolution.

Other minor enhancements



Greater control over clipping objects. A new option in the Website tab of the Website Properties

dialog allows you to choose whether or not to clip objects to web page edges. If you do not clip,

then any objects overlapping your page on to the pasteboard will be displayed in full, rather than

cropped to the page border. In addition, any animated transitions you apply will now start from

the browser window edge rather than the page border.



Improved context sensitive menus offer direct access to useful actions. Right-click on

objects, page or pasteboard for instant access to many useful operations relevant to the object.



Clearer Infobar text rendering brings greater screen display quality and clarity to all Xara

Designer Pro 7 toolbars, if ClearType text is enabled in your Windows' control panel.



Add your website to Xara/MAGIX user galleries. When you publish your website, you can now

choose to include a thumbnail of your site in existing user website galleries hosted by

Xara/MAGIX.



Prevent objects on the current layer from repelling text on other layers using the new 'Text

repelling within layer' option in the Layer Properties dialog. This option also stops text on the

current layer being repelled by objects on higher layers. This is useful for (and is set by default

on) popup layers in web documents.



Easily add header code to a page or website. Xara Designer Pro 7 now allows you to enter

HTML code into the head of your web pages, as well as the body, giving you greater versatility

to customize your website. You can easily add your own code (or code from a widget provider)

into individual pages or all pages in your website. Also code entry for either the head or body is

easier with a new larger pop-up code editing dialog.



Extended spell check support includes Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Slovak and Turkish.



PDF import improvements Further updates to the PDF import filter.



Improved EPS import reliability - Some improvements to EPS import.

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General



Live Copies give you a dynamic new way of linking multiple copies of an object so that if one

changes, they all do. Similar to repeating objects, Live Copies are however more powerful. You

can reposition, resize and transform each Live Copy independently.



Brand new 'magic snap' for object alignment. Xara Designer Pro 7 now provides 'magic'

magnetic object snapping. As you drag an object, it 'snaps' to points and lines of interest nearby

and indicates what it has snapped to by displaying dynamic snap lines and points. This makes it

easy to align objects with each other, or with guidelines or the page center or edges.



Advanced non-axis aligned snapping. You can now also align to lines that are neither vertical or

horizontal.



Enhanced ease of use. Xara Designer Pro 7 galleries now give faster access to the information

you need:

o

A new default Page & Layer Gallery 'pages' mode displays a narrow list of page thumbnails

? for easy page selection and access.

o

Designer Pro initially displays an uncluttered single page view. Use the Page & Layer Gallery

to quickly move to different pages, or switch to multi-page view by right clicking on the page

and selecting the multi-page view option on the menu.



Improved embedding of graphics into flowing text. Creating anchored objects is now a one-click

action and objects that you anchor in text can now also repel text, helping you create a

wrap-around effect easily. Repel margins can also now be defined separately for the margin

width and height. And anchored objects can be constrained to move vertically only, which is very

useful where you have objects to the right or left of the text that need to move only up and

down.



New paste operations bring much more flexibility to pasting operations, allowing Paste position,

Paste size, Paste replacing selection, Paste in current layer and Paste in place in current layer.



Cut, copy & paste of whole pages. You can now cut, copy and paste whole pages both within

and between documents.



Edit inside for easy editing of grouped objects. Double-click on a group or other composite

object type to edit it in a separate document window.



Tabbed document windows. Tabs at the top of the Designer Pro window show clearly which

document you are currently viewing, the document type and whether there are unsaved changes.

See at a glance which documents you have currently open and gain access to them by just

clicking on the document tab.



New gallery system supports fly-out galleries for instant viewing and flexible docking

options. A new gallery bar gives instant access to all galleries, which now fly out as you hover

the mouse pointer over a new gallery bar. It's easy to move galleries around the workspace, and

you can pin and dock them wherever you want, either individually or in groups or 'stacks' on top

of each other.



Quick alignment of selected objects is made possible by the new right click menu option 'Align'.

This enables you to directly align multiple objects horizontally and vertically, without having to

open the alignment dialog.



Export animation documents as AVI files. Xara Designer Pro 7 now allows you to export any

animation document as an AVI file, or even an AVI with transparency, helping you create your

own web-ready movie content.



HTML 5 video. MP4 movie files added to your website will now play without Flash installed if

the browser supports HTML5 video, so movies play on iOS devices such as iPhones and iPads.

Page 6

Web Authoring / Web Publishing



New widgets. Make your websites eye-catching and dynamic with our new smart widgets that

enable you to add an advanced selection of slick photo and text animations to your web pages

without the need for coding knowledge. More widgets will be automatically downloaded and

added to your gallery over time.



Presentation websites. Create web-based 'slide-show' style presentations that your website

visitors can step through using the keyboard arrow keys. Apply animated transition effects as

each step and page is displayed. You can also easily remotely host a web meeting (a Webinar) to

showcase your presentation, step by step and page by page, to a group of invited participants.



New animated transition effects for layers and page links. Xara Designer Pro 7 makes it easy

to add a wide range of animated effects to the layers and page links in your website. You can

add animated transitions to any page link or pop-up layer in your web pages.



Intelligent repeating headers / footers / watermarks. Xara Designer Pro 7 now automatically

updates all occurrences of a repeating object when you edit it, so you don't have to manually

update when you make a change. When one instance of a repeating object is edited, the updates

appear instantly on all other instances of that object on other pages of the document. What's

more, Xara Designer Pro 7 is smart about positioning, so objects in the top half of the page are

positioned on other pages relative to the top of the page, and objects near the bottom are

positioned relative to the bottom of the page, irrespective of page sizes.



Add individuality to your web page browser tabs using 'favicons'. Xara Designer Pro 7 now

supports the addition of favicons, allowing you to customize the tabs of your web pages by

displaying a custom graphic, such as a logo, on the document browser tab.



Sitemap support. You can now automatically generate a sitemap for submission to search engines

to assist them with the crawling of your website when you publish it.



Built-in preview window now includes navigation buttons. The navigation buttons in the top bar

of the preview window allow you to move back or forward, just like in a web browser, and the

Home button returns you to the page you started the preview on.



Quickly preview your pages in the most popular web browsers. If you have Firefox, Internet

Explorer, Opera, Safari or Chrome installed, you can preview exactly how your page will appear

in each of these popular web browsers with one click.



Preview your web page in full screen by clicking the new View Full Screen button in Xara

Designer Pro 7's built-in Preview window. When you next use preview, Xara Designer Pro 7

remembers the last used mode (normal, maximized or full screen). and displays subsequent

previews in the same way.



Explore your FTP web space from within Xara Designer Pro 7. You can browse through and

delete files and folders on your FTP server using Xara Designer Pro 7's built-in Web Space

Explorer.



A new range of templates gives you a greater design choice when creating your websites in Xara

Designer Pro 7.

Photo



Photo Magic Erase now allows you to rapidly and effectively erase unwanted objects from your

photos even faster. Just click a button and Xara Designer Pro 7 automatically finds a suitable part

of the image to clone over the top of anything you select. Don't like it? Just click again! Xara

Designer Pro 7 shows you a series of possibilities, which you can scroll through until you find a

replacement that suits.



The Optimize photo dialog now includes the option to maintain the photo's current resolution.

Page 7

Other minor enhancements



Greater control over clipping objects. A new option in the Website tab of the Website Properties

dialog allows you to choose whether or not to clip objects to web page edges. If you do not clip,

then any objects overlapping your page on to the pasteboard will be displayed in full, rather than

cropped to the page border. In addition, any animated transitions you apply will now start from

the browser window edge rather than the page border.



Improved context sensitive menus offer direct access to useful actions. Right-click on

objects, page or pasteboard for instant access to many useful operations relevant to the object.



Clearer Infobar text rendering brings greater screen display quality and clarity to all Xara

Designer Pro 7 toolbars, if ClearType text is enabled in your Windows' control panel.



Add your website to Xara/MAGIX user galleries. When you publish your website, you can now

choose to include a thumbnail of your site in existing user website galleries hosted by

Xara/MAGIX.



Prevent objects on the current layer from repelling text on other layers using the new 'Text

repelling within layer' option in the Layer Properties dialog. This option also stops text on the

current layer being repelled by objects on higher layers. This is useful for (and is set by default

on) popup layers in web documents.



Easily add header code to a page or website. Xara Designer Pro 7 now allows you to enter

HTML code into the head of your web pages, as well as the body, giving you greater versatility

to customize your website. You can easily add your own code (or code from a widget provider)

into individual pages or all pages in your website. Also code entry for either the head or body is

easier with a new larger pop-up code editing dialog.



Extended spell check support includes Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Slovak and Turkish.



PDF import improvements Further updates to the PDF import filter.



Improved EPS import reliability - Some improvements to EPS import.

Page 8

Web Authoring / Web Publishing



New widgets. Make your websites eye-catching and dynamic with our new smart widgets that

enable you to add an advanced selection of slick photo and text animations to your web pages

without the need for coding knowledge. More widgets will be automatically downloaded and

added to your gallery over time.



Presentation websites. Create web-based 'slide-show' style presentations that your website

visitors can step through using the keyboard arrow keys. Apply animated transition effects as

each step and page is displayed. You can also easily remotely host a web meeting (a Webinar) to

showcase your presentation, step by step and page by page, to a group of invited participants.



New animated transition effects for layers and page links. Xara Designer Pro 7 makes it easy

to add a wide range of animated effects to the layers and page links in your website. You can

add animated transitions to any page link or pop-up layer in your web pages.



Intelligent repeating headers / footers / watermarks. Xara Designer Pro 7 now automatically

updates all occurrences of a repeating object when you edit it, so you don't have to manually

update when you make a change. When one instance of a repeating object is edited, the updates

appear instantly on all other instances of that object on other pages of the document. What's

more, Xara Designer Pro 7 is smart about positioning, so objects in the top half of the page are

positioned on other pages relative to the top of the page, and objects near the bottom are

positioned relative to the bottom of the page, irrespective of page sizes.



Add individuality to your web page browser tabs using 'favicons'. Xara Designer Pro 7 now

supports the addition of favicons, allowing you to customize the tabs of your web pages by

displaying a custom graphic, such as a logo, on the document browser tab.



Sitemap support. You can now automatically generate a sitemap for submission to search engines

to assist them with the crawling of your website when you publish it.



Built-in preview window now includes navigation buttons. The navigation buttons in the top bar

of the preview window allow you to move back or forward, just like in a web browser, and the

Home button returns you to the page you started the preview on.



Quickly preview your pages in the most popular web browsers. If you have Firefox, Internet

Explorer, Opera, Safari or Chrome installed, you can preview exactly how your page will appear

in each of these popular web browsers with one click.



Preview your web page in full screen by clicking the new View Full Screen button in Xara

Designer Pro 7's built-in Preview window. When you next use preview, Xara Designer Pro 7

remembers the last used mode (normal, maximized or full screen). and displays subsequent

previews in the same way.



Explore your FTP web space from within Xara Designer Pro 7. You can browse through and

delete files and folders on your FTP server using Xara Designer Pro 7's built-in Web Space

Explorer.



A new range of templates gives you a greater design choice when creating your websites in Xara

Designer Pro 7.

Photo



Photo Magic Erase now allows you to rapidly and effectively erase unwanted objects from your

photos even faster. Just click a button and Xara Designer Pro 7 automatically finds a suitable part

of the image to clone over the top of anything you select. Don't like it? Just click again! Xara

Designer Pro 7 shows you a series of possibilities, which you can scroll through until you find a

replacement that suits.



The Optimize photo dialog now includes the option to maintain the photo's current resolution.

Page 9

Other minor enhancements



Greater control over clipping objects. A new option in the Website tab of the Website Properties

dialog allows you to choose whether or not to clip objects to web page edges. If you do not clip,

then any objects overlapping your page on to the pasteboard will be displayed in full, rather than

cropped to the page border. In addition, any animated transitions you apply will now start from

the browser window edge rather than the page border.



Improved context sensitive menus offer direct access to useful actions. Right-click on

objects, page or pasteboard for instant access to many useful operations relevant to the object.



Clearer Infobar text rendering brings greater screen display quality and clarity to all Xara

Designer Pro 7 toolbars, if ClearType text is enabled in your Windows' control panel.



Add your website to Xara/MAGIX user galleries. When you publish your website, you can now

choose to include a thumbnail of your site in existing user website galleries hosted by

Xara/MAGIX.



Prevent objects on the current layer from repelling text on other layers using the new 'Text

repelling within layer' option in the Layer Properties dialog. This option also stops text on the

current layer being repelled by objects on higher layers. This is useful for (and is set by default

on) popup layers in web documents.



Easily add header code to a page or website. Xara Designer Pro 7 now allows you to enter

HTML code into the head of your web pages, as well as the body, giving you greater versatility

to customize your website. You can easily add your own code (or code from a widget provider)

into individual pages or all pages in your website. Also code entry for either the head or body is

easier with a new larger pop-up code editing dialog.



Extended spell check support includes Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Slovak and Turkish.



PDF import improvements Further updates to the PDF import filter.



Improved EPS import reliability - Some improvements to EPS import.

Page 10

Photo



Photo Magic Erase now allows you to rapidly and effectively erase unwanted objects from your

photos even faster. Just click a button and Xara Designer Pro 7 automatically finds a suitable part

of the image to clone over the top of anything you select. Don't like it? Just click again! Xara

Designer Pro 7 shows you a series of possibilities, which you can scroll through until you find a

replacement that suits.



The Optimize photo dialog now includes the option to maintain the photo's current resolution.

Other minor enhancements



Greater control over clipping objects. A new option in the Website tab of the Website Properties

dialog allows you to choose whether or not to clip objects to web page edges. If you do not clip,

then any objects overlapping your page on to the pasteboard will be displayed in full, rather than

cropped to the page border. In addition, any animated transitions you apply will now start from

the browser window edge rather than the page border.



Improved context sensitive menus offer direct access to useful actions. Right-click on

objects, page or pasteboard for instant access to many useful operations relevant to the object.



Clearer Infobar text rendering brings greater screen display quality and clarity to all Xara

Designer Pro 7 toolbars, if ClearType text is enabled in your Windows' control panel.



Add your website to Xara/MAGIX user galleries. When you publish your website, you can now

choose to include a thumbnail of your site in existing user website galleries hosted by

Xara/MAGIX.



Prevent objects on the current layer from repelling text on other layers using the new 'Text

repelling within layer' option in the Layer Properties dialog. This option also stops text on the

current layer being repelled by objects on higher layers. This is useful for (and is set by default

on) popup layers in web documents.



Easily add header code to a page or website. Xara Designer Pro 7 now allows you to enter

HTML code into the head of your web pages, as well as the body, giving you greater versatility

to customize your website. You can easily add your own code (or code from a widget provider)

into individual pages or all pages in your website. Also code entry for either the head or body is

easier with a new larger pop-up code editing dialog.



Extended spell check support includes Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Slovak and Turkish.



PDF import improvements Further updates to the PDF import filter.



Improved EPS import reliability - Some improvements to EPS import.

Page 11

Other minor enhancements



Greater control over clipping objects. A new option in the Website tab of the Website Properties

dialog allows you to choose whether or not to clip objects to web page edges. If you do not clip,

then any objects overlapping your page on to the pasteboard will be displayed in full, rather than

cropped to the page border. In addition, any animated transitions you apply will now start from

the browser window edge rather than the page border.



Improved context sensitive menus offer direct access to useful actions. Right-click on

objects, page or pasteboard for instant access to many useful operations relevant to the object.



Clearer Infobar text rendering brings greater screen display quality and clarity to all Xara

Designer Pro 7 toolbars, if ClearType text is enabled in your Windows' control panel.



Add your website to Xara/MAGIX user galleries. When you publish your website, you can now

choose to include a thumbnail of your site in existing user website galleries hosted by

Xara/MAGIX.



Prevent objects on the current layer from repelling text on other layers using the new 'Text

repelling within layer' option in the Layer Properties dialog. This option also stops text on the

current layer being repelled by objects on higher layers. This is useful for (and is set by default

on) popup layers in web documents.



Easily add header code to a page or website. Xara Designer Pro 7 now allows you to enter

HTML code into the head of your web pages, as well as the body, giving you greater versatility

to customize your website. You can easily add your own code (or code from a widget provider)

into individual pages or all pages in your website. Also code entry for either the head or body is

easier with a new larger pop-up code editing dialog.



Extended spell check support includes Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Slovak and Turkish.



PDF import improvements Further updates to the PDF import filter.



Improved EPS import reliability - Some improvements to EPS import.

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Introduction to Xara Designer

Pro 7

Welcome to Xara Designer Pro 7

Xara Designer Pro 7 is a powerful and easy to use graphics and document creation tool, able to

produce everything from top quality web graphics and websites to highly detailed illustrations and

multi-page documents for print and PDF output.

If you're working with photos, then Designer Pro can handle everything from a simple one-click

auto-enhance of your photo to impressive digital photo compositions. If you're creating a website, then

Designer Pro can help you produce everything you need, from Flash animations to complete web page

layouts and even complete websites. If your task includes drawing then this is a great tool for everything

from simple logos to cartoons and astonishingly detailed illustrations. And since Designer Pro is equally at

home with drawing, photos and text it is the perfect solution for design work from cards and invitations to

posters, adverts and multi-page brochures.

If you click on the contents tab of this help guide, you will find a detailed description of each of the tools,

galleries, menus, and control bars. You can also click on the index tab to search for a particular

keyword.

Getting started with Xara Designer Pro 7

Getting started with Flash animations

Watch the demo movies

Getting more help

Program designed and developed by Xara Group Ltd. For more information about Xara and its

products, click here. Alternatively, visit our web site:

www.xara.com

The Geotype font is provided by kind permission of Gary Bouton and remains © Gary Bouton. Take a

look at www.theboutons.com

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Other fonts are provided by third parties who retain the copyright. In all cases, copyright is reserved by

Xara or its licensors and is protected by international copyright law.

The contents of this documentation and the associated Xara Designer Pro 7 software are the property of

Xara Group Ltd and are copyrighted. Any reproduction in whole or in part is strictly prohibited. For

additional copies of the software, please contact Xara Group Ltd. Xara Designer Pro 7 license terms

.

Xara is a trademark of Xara Group Ltd.

Read all acknowledgements

Last changed: 24/05/2011

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Welcome to Xara Designer Pro 7

Xara Designer Pro 7 is a powerful and easy to use graphics and document creation tool, able to

produce everything from top quality web graphics and websites to highly detailed illustrations and

multi-page documents for print and PDF output.

If you're working with photos, then Designer Pro can handle everything from a simple one-click

auto-enhance of your photo to impressive digital photo compositions. If you're creating a website, then

Designer Pro can help you produce everything you need, from Flash animations to complete web page

layouts and even complete websites. If your task includes drawing then this is a great tool for everything

from simple logos to cartoons and astonishingly detailed illustrations. And since Designer Pro is equally at

home with drawing, photos and text it is the perfect solution for design work from cards and invitations to

posters, adverts and multi-page brochures.

If you click on the contents tab of this help guide, you will find a detailed description of each of the tools,

galleries, menus, and control bars. You can also click on the index tab to search for a particular

keyword.

Getting started with Xara Designer Pro 7

Getting started with Flash animations

Watch the demo movies

Getting more help

Program designed and developed by Xara Group Ltd. For more information about Xara and its

products, click here. Alternatively, visit our web site:

www.xara.com

The Geotype font is provided by kind permission of Gary Bouton and remains © Gary Bouton. Take a

look at www.theboutons.com

Other fonts are provided by third parties who retain the copyright. In all cases, copyright is reserved by

Xara or its licensors and is protected by international copyright law.

The contents of this documentation and the associated Xara Designer Pro 7 software are the property of

Xara Group Ltd and are copyrighted. Any reproduction in whole or in part is strictly prohibited. For

additional copies of the software, please contact Xara Group Ltd. Xara Designer Pro 7 license terms

.

Xara is a trademark of Xara Group Ltd.

Read all acknowledgements

Last changed: 24/05/2011

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Designer Pro terminology

This section describes some of the terminology used in Designer Pro.

Document

You can think of a document as a conventional sheet of paper (or a couple of it). Like a sheet of paper,

you can draw lines and curves, place objects like shapes, cliparts and photos and write text (and erase

them later). You can save the document for later use by storing it on disk or printing it.

Page

This is the white area in the document. You can place objects on the page margin, on the page, or

overlapping both. However, only objects on the page are printed. A document can contain one or

several single pages or double pages spreads. A double page is like two separate sheets of paper placed

next to each other.

Lines, shapes, and objects

These are all lines

A line

can be straight, curved or a mixture of

both. A line must have a start and an

end, thus it is always open. You can

apply a thickness and color to a line.

These are all shapes

A shape

is a solid or closed object. The

difference between a line and a shape

is that a shape has no start or end.

Because a shape is a closed object,

you can fill it with a color or leave it

empty with no color. You can apply a

thickness and color to the line around

the shape.

In postscript terminology, a shape is a closed path. Designer Pro sometimes uses "shape" as shorthand

for "line or shape".

These are all objects

Object is a general term

. This manual uses it where the same

information applies to lines, shapes,

bitmaps and text. For example,

moving a line is exactly the same as

moving a shape, moving a bitmap or

moving text.

Many operations in Designer Pro apply equally to a single object or a collection of objects. "Object" can

refer both to one object and to several objects.

Attributes are the characteristics of objects

such as line width and pattern, colors and so on.

Bars

There are three types of bars: the Main toolbar, the InfoBar, and then various other button bars which

are sometimes just referred to as control bars, e.g. the Gallery

button bar.

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Attributes

The various characteristics that define the appearance of objects on the page, such as color, line width,

fill style etc are all called Attributes

of the object.

The Attributes of objects can be copied and pasted between different objects using the Paste Attributes

menu command.

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Document

You can think of a document as a conventional sheet of paper (or a couple of it). Like a sheet of paper,

you can draw lines and curves, place objects like shapes, cliparts and photos and write text (and erase

them later). You can save the document for later use by storing it on disk or printing it.

Page

This is the white area in the document. You can place objects on the page margin, on the page, or

overlapping both. However, only objects on the page are printed. A document can contain one or

several single pages or double pages spreads. A double page is like two separate sheets of paper placed

next to each other.

Lines, shapes, and objects

These are all lines

A line

can be straight, curved or a mixture of

both. A line must have a start and an

end, thus it is always open. You can

apply a thickness and color to a line.

These are all shapes

A shape

is a solid or closed object. The

difference between a line and a shape

is that a shape has no start or end.

Because a shape is a closed object,

you can fill it with a color or leave it

empty with no color. You can apply a

thickness and color to the line around

the shape.

In postscript terminology, a shape is a closed path. Designer Pro sometimes uses "shape" as shorthand

for "line or shape".

These are all objects

Object is a general term

. This manual uses it where the same

information applies to lines, shapes,

bitmaps and text. For example,

moving a line is exactly the same as

moving a shape, moving a bitmap or

moving text.

Many operations in Designer Pro apply equally to a single object or a collection of objects. "Object" can

refer both to one object and to several objects.

Attributes are the characteristics of objects

such as line width and pattern, colors and so on.

Bars

There are three types of bars: the Main toolbar, the InfoBar, and then various other button bars which

are sometimes just referred to as control bars, e.g. the Gallery

button bar.

Attributes

The various characteristics that define the appearance of objects on the page, such as color, line width,

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fill style etc are all called Attributes

of the object.

The Attributes of objects can be copied and pasted between different objects using the Paste Attributes

menu command.

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Page

This is the white area in the document. You can place objects on the page margin, on the page, or

overlapping both. However, only objects on the page are printed. A document can contain one or

several single pages or double pages spreads. A double page is like two separate sheets of paper placed

next to each other.

Lines, shapes, and objects

These are all lines

A line

can be straight, curved or a mixture of

both. A line must have a start and an

end, thus it is always open. You can

apply a thickness and color to a line.

These are all shapes

A shape

is a solid or closed object. The

difference between a line and a shape

is that a shape has no start or end.

Because a shape is a closed object,

you can fill it with a color or leave it

empty with no color. You can apply a

thickness and color to the line around

the shape.

In postscript terminology, a shape is a closed path. Designer Pro sometimes uses "shape" as shorthand

for "line or shape".

These are all objects

Object is a general term

. This manual uses it where the same

information applies to lines, shapes,

bitmaps and text. For example,

moving a line is exactly the same as

moving a shape, moving a bitmap or

moving text.

Many operations in Designer Pro apply equally to a single object or a collection of objects. "Object" can

refer both to one object and to several objects.

Attributes are the characteristics of objects

such as line width and pattern, colors and so on.

Bars

There are three types of bars: the Main toolbar, the InfoBar, and then various other button bars which

are sometimes just referred to as control bars, e.g. the Gallery

button bar.

Attributes

The various characteristics that define the appearance of objects on the page, such as color, line width,

fill style etc are all called Attributes

of the object.

The Attributes of objects can be copied and pasted between different objects using the Paste Attributes

menu command.

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