MAGIX Xara Designer Pro X, Designer Pro X User manual

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Purchasing and unlocking
Xara Designer Pro X
When you run the downloaded trial version of Xara Designer Pro X, 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
. The trial lasts for 7 days from when you first start the program, but you can extend this free trial period
to 30 days if you register. Click the Extend Trial button to register and extend your trial.
Important note
: Please keep a record of the email address and password you used when purchasing Xara Designer Pro
X 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 X 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 X ?
In this chapter
Photo Tools
Design & Usability Enhancements
Web Authoring / Web Publishing (Pro only)
Other minor enhancements
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Photo Tools
Clone Tool (Clone and Magic Erase)
The Clone Tool has been significantly improved. When you clone, copy or magic erase an area it now
uses the current edited photo as the source, instead of the original photo (for manual clone and magic
erase objects), which makes the whole process far more WYSIWYG.
Hue Adjustment
The Photo Enhance tool now includes a new hue adjustment feature, allowing a photo (or parts of a
photo when using a soft mask or the new 'color select' feature, see below) to be tinted with any color.
Color Erase / Selection tool
This powerful new tool serves two purposes; to erase (make transparent) parts of photos based on
colors, and secondly to allow only those color-selected areas to be adjusted using the Photo Tool
Enhance operations (such as Brightness, Blur, Hue Adjustment etc).
So you can, for example, easily adjust the brightness of the blue sky in your photo or remove it
completely, or change the color of a flower, without affecting other parts of the picture.
Make soft mask
If instead of just erasing areas of your photo, you want to adjust the brightness, sharpness, or color, etc,
then you can use the 'Make soft mask' option to turn the erased areas into a mask, so that subsequent
Enhance operations affect only the erased areas.
Other Photo Improvements
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An updated 'Optimize all images' function will scan all graphics and images in your document -
now including PNGs as well as JPEGs - and convert them to the optimum size and optimum
image type. This can substantially reduce memory use and .web file sizes. (NB this is a
destructive operation).
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You are also given the option to optimize images to JPEG when importing, if Designer
recommends it.
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The integrated Panorama stitching tool now stitches up to 8 photos (previous limit was 6) and
processing is multi-threaded for higher performance on multi-core computers.
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Photo replacement is now smarter. When you drag and drop a photo onto an existing one, other
existing copies of that image are not all replaced together by the new photo, unless they are inside
the same soft group.
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Design & Usability Enhancements
Shape Editing
A pair of important new shape editing tools have been added, one of which adds or appends to an
existing shape, the other erases parts of objects, and can act as a vector erase tool or as a soft eraser
tool.
Shape Builder Tool (Pro only)
This tool enables you to 'paint' onto an existing shape to enlarge it, add new areas or adjust the shape or
outline. It does this in a vector way, and is a much more direct and often easier way than using the Shape
Editor tool. You can adjust the size of the 'brush' as well as its aspect ratio and rotation angle.
The Shape Builder Info Bar provides controls over brush size, the roundness, brush tip angle and the
softness, as well as a smoothness control which adjusts how accurately the brush stroke follows your
mouse movement.
Note: This tool can be used on photos, but it's only useful to enlarge an already edited or cropped photo
outline.
Shape Eraser Tool (Pro and PGD)
This is really two powerful tools in one, and can be used to perform hard-edged vector erasing of
shapes and photos, or soft erasing.
Hard Erase
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When used with a hard edge, it's a fast and direct way of adjusting the vector outline of a shape
inwards. If you stroke around the edge of a shape with your mouse, it just moves the outline
inwards. (In Pro: It acts as a great complement to the above 'shape builder' tool in that it can be
used to adjust the vector edge of shapes and photos.)
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Dragging a hard-edge erase stroke completely across an object will cut it in two and create two
separate objects. If you click and hold (i.e. don't perform a brush stroke), it will simply cut a hole
in the shape.
Soft Erase
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You also have a soft erase option; strokes over any object (which can be any shape, text or
photo) will erase, ie make transparent, the brush-stroked area. The softness control adjusts how
soft the edge of the brush stroke is.
Non-destructive editing
One of the great things about this soft erase feature is that it's not destructive, that is it doesn't change the
underlying erased shape or photo at all, unlike most other photo editing programs.
This has some important benefits: not only can change your mind at any point and re-adjust the erase, but
you can also un-erase and even remove all the erase strokes and recover the original, unmodified shape,
text or photo. What's more you can, for example, apply a soft erase across some text, or perhaps a 3D
extruded shape, and then still edit that text, or adjust the 3D extrude, after the erase has been applied.
Text Styles
Designer now supports Text Styles, a powerful way to alter the appearance of text throughout your
document with just a few clicks. Update an element of your Text Style eg font, color, line spacing etc,
and all text with that Style applied throughout your document is instantly updated ? headings, titles or
body text. Consistent text styles help you create professional looking documents, and now it couldn't be
easier.
What's more we offer 'live' Style preview; Simply select some text and then traverse the Style menu - the
selection will change to show your text in each Style. It's a quick and easy way to try out your Styles
without having to actually select and undo each in turn.
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Inline Graphics
Designer now allows you to embed 'inline graphics' in text using a simple Paste operation. Embedded
graphics are great for really small items on the line such as symbols, icons etc, e.g. and are treated just
like a 'character', in other words they flow and follow the same formatting rules as a character embedded
in the text.
Designs Gallery
New content & usability improvements:
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We've added a selection of modern new print templates, including greeting cards, brochures,
business cards, CD covers and certificates, plus a selection of new clipart.
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The Designs Gallery has been completely re-arranged and re-ordered to be more easily
navigable.
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Live Designs Gallery. The Designs Gallery is now completely server linked, so we can update
and add more templates, clipart, Widgets etc.
Media Exchange via the Share Menu
The new Share Menu puts the MX (Media Exchange) into Designer! All titles in the MAGIX/Xara
range can share media files with each other and with some important third party services.
Using the new Share menu, the current selection (whether it's a photo, or any other object) can be
passed as a JPEG to other installed MAGIX MX or X applications (eg Movie Edit Pro MX), to
MAGIX Online Album, and to Flickr and Facebook.
Page & Layer Gallery
Re-position / Delete / Cut or Copy multiple pages
It's now possible to select more than one page in the Page & Layer Gallery and re-position them with
drag & drop. Plus there's right click access to menu options to Delete, Cut or Copy the selection of
pages to the clipboard. You can go into another document and paste whole pages.
You can now also drag objects into and out of ordinary groups in the Gallery (note this is not supported
for special groups like anchored groups, repeating groups, etc).
Import & Export
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'Import graphics from the Web' has been improved and now imports graphics and text from a
web page, and places them in the right position on the page. Note that since most websites use
scripts, mouse-over effects and hidden objects and text, this will rarely produce a WYSIWYG
result, but it is very useful for importing all graphics and text from an existing website.
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Improved Copy / Paste of HTML items from other applications such as web browsers (Note the
same restrictions apply as above).
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SVG Import. It's now possible to import most SVG files (we say 'most' because there is no
industry agreement for SVG format - for example different web browsers support different sets
of features).
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Beta import of OpenOffice Impress (.odp) and PowerPoint (.pptx). (Pro only)
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Improved PDF import.
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Update of camera RAW import.
Color Editor
The color editor is now resizable, which is particularly useful when editing very pale shades of a color in
the top right area of the color picker.
Pantone Update
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The set of Pantone colors in the Color Gallery has been updated to Pantone's latest offerings.
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Web Authoring / Web Publishing (Pro only)
Automatic Object Positioning / Smart Page Resize
In previous versions of Designer Pro you had to manually adjust the position of items on your page as
you edited or added more text. Similarly you had to drag the bottom of the page down to make it longer
as your content grew.
No longer! - Designer Pro now has the ability to make growing text areas automatically push other
objects down the page, and also lengthen the page automatically to accommodate the enlarged text
areas. Creating websites based on templates will now be considerably easier and faster.
Embedded Fonts
Designer Pro's font embedding technology overcomes the serious design limitation of having to stick to
the very small selection of so called 'web safe' fonts. Our technique is compatible with the vast majority
of modern web browsers and works by embedding a special version of the font on your website which
the web browser can download and display.
MP3 player
Just drop an MP3 audio file on to your web page to add audio to your website. You can choose
whether or not the audio starts automatically when your page is viewed.
New Widgets & Widget Improvements
There's a selection of new web page Widgets in the Designs Gallery under Page Elements.
New re-sizeable JavaScript Widgets
In previous versions of Designer Pro only Flash Widgets could be resized, DHTML or JavaScript
Widgets were fixed size. This release introduces re-sizeable JavaScript Widgets. All existing Widgets
have been updated to this new level, and several new ones have been added.
Unlike Flash Widgets they are compatible with all modern devices including iPhone, iPads and Windows
Phone 7, and do not require a Flash plug-in.
New Chart Widgets
There is a new chart drawing Widget included which lets you create interactive charts and graphs for
your website. The charts use interactive DHTML and SVG to render the chart in the browser, which
responds to mouse-over to highlight particular chart values.
Other New Widgets
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A Widget for creating QR codes
Enhancements to Widget Handling
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You can now preview a Widget in the Widget document directly (you do not need to Close &
Save it back to the original).
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When linking to other pages of your website from within a Widget editor, you'll now see a list of
all pages, making it very easy to link to any page in your website from within a Widget.
Presentations
We've enhanced presentations in Designer Pro X in a number of ways.
Slide navigation
Move your mouse to the lower left corner of the browser window in any page of your presentation and
you'll now see a pop-up page navigation control that includes a menu of all slides, allowing you to jump
directly to any slide. Plus there's handy Previous, Home and Next controls.
Layer-less bullet lists
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The new graphical bullet and numbered list feature (see below for more info on this feature) creates
automatic presentation steps (each bullet or numbered item is treated as a separate step in the
presentation). This makes a huge improvement to usability and productivity when creating lists.
Page & Layer Gallery - Change page transition
You can now select multiple pages in the Page & Layer Gallery ? this is handy for presentations because
you can then use the right-click menu 'Web page properties' to alter the page animation transition for all
the selected pages.
Graphical Bullet and Number Lists
Pro v8 introduces the ability to use your own graphical designs for the bullet character or the number at
the start of bullet or numbered lists, which can make a significant improvement in the presentation quality
of any list. You can use any of the in-built drawing and text tools to create your own bullet and number
graphics and we also supply a collection of ready-made examples in the Designs Gallery.
Pop-Up Layers
You can now choose whether you want your pop-up layers to close automatically, or only when a
viewer clicks a close box.
In Document Pop-Up Link Checker
When you click on any item with a web link in Designer Pro (not on the web page), a small pop-up
appears giving you the option to follow the link, change it, or remove it - very useful if you want to test a
link or view the linked page while you're working on the document.
New Web Templates
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3 new web themes (usually sold for $10 each) and new web graphic templates.
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Existing themes in Pro have been updated to support new features, such as the smart page
resizing or graphical bullets and numbers.
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Other minor enhancements
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Improved Incremental Publishing, making it smarter about publishing updates
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We've added an option to make the button order in a NavBar match the order of pages as
shown in the Page & Layer Gallery. With this option on, if you re-order pages your NavBar
buttons will reflect this change. (Pro only).
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One year's free top level domain name included with the free MAGIX Online World hosting (Pro
only)
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Images that are created during the export process from objects that include text, now have that
text set as 'Alt' text on the image. So for example a graphical heading that shows the text
"Widgets From John Smith" will now have that text set as image Alt text. This means the text can
be indexed by search engines even though it's presented as an image on the page, and it will be
picked up by 'read aloud' tools used by the visually impaired.
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Improved formatting support for character based languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and
Korean.
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A new option to turn off the fly-out galleries.
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Right clicking over any empty area of the button bars on the Designer window will show a
context menu to quickly enable or disable any tool bar.
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The 'Preview Page' and 'Preview Website' buttons have been placed beside each other on the
top bar, for easier, quicker access and provided with new F5 and Shift+F5 key short cuts.
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A new 'Lock page size' option has been added in the 'Page Options' dialog. This can prevent
accidental drag resize of the lower or right page edge.
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Page Guides are now turned on and 'snap to guides' enabled automatically if you attempt to drag
a guideline onto a page when the guides are turned off.
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New keyboard shortcuts:
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Delete Page: Delete
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Move Page Up: PageUp
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Move Page Down: PageDown
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Push margins dialog: Ctrl+Shift+H
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Toggle Push attribute on selection: Ctrl+H
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Preview Website: F5
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Preview current web page Shift + F5
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When rotating objects if you hold Ctrl down it now snaps any significant straight edge to the
horizontal or vertical. This applies to text lines, columns and blocks, photos, Quick Shapes, lines
and even freehand drawn shapes that have significant straight edges.
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You can now set the AVI frame rate of exported animations, and the animation preview window
now has thumb track control on a timeline.
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Also v8 is smart about the lack of mouseovers and mouse pointers on iOS devices ? the first tap
on a button or link will now follow the link, a second tap isn't necessary.
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Soft Mask. Mask mode now supports soft as well as hard masks. You can place semi
transparent objects on the mask layer to form a soft mask, so that you have fine control over the
placement and strength of Photo Enhance effects such as Hue, Saturation or brightness
adjustments. With this new release you can paste any semi-transparent vector object, including
complex groups and alpha-channel bitmaps onto the mask layer.
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Introduction to Xara Designer
Pro X
Welcome to Xara Designer Pro X
Xara Designer Pro X 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 X
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
©1995-2012 Xara Group Ltd.
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 X 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 X license terms
.
Xara is a trademark of Xara Group Ltd.
Read all acknowledgements
Last changed: 11/05/2012
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Welcome to Xara Designer Pro X
Xara Designer Pro X 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 X
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
©1995-2012 Xara Group Ltd.
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 X 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 X license terms
.
Xara is a trademark of Xara Group Ltd.
Read all acknowledgements
Last changed: 11/05/2012
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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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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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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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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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