Page 118 - Xara Designer Pro X17

118 Object Handling

Photo: set to STRETCH - MAINTAIN EDGE OFFSETS.
Center text panel: AUTOMATIC - text is set to center vertically and horizontally.
Background rectangle: set to AUTOMATIC.
Footer text panel: set to BOTTOM and % SCALE WIDTH.

Previewing and testing Auto-fit pages
A great way to test the adaptability of your page design is to preview and test using the
PAGE SIZE dialog - right click on the page background - select PAGE OPTIONS... (ON PAGE
41) and then the PAGE SIZE TAB.

In the Page Options dialog - the Paper size field has a drop-down list of common page sizes.

So you can select a preset paper size from the drop down, but a much easier way is to
unlock the page, which allows you to drag the width and height to any desired value. To
enable page size dragging, just un-check the LOCK PAGE SIZE option. Now if you move
the mouse pointer near the right or bottom edge of the page, the pointer changes to
indicate you can drag the edge to resize.

Resizing picture and text
It’s important to understand that when a page is stretched (e.g. if you drag the right edge
of the page to be wider), text items and images are resized, but the program does not
distort the text or images. There’s nothing worse than a photo that has the wrong aspect
ratio, or stretched text.

So in the case of text objects, when the container of the text is resized, the text just re-
flows within the new container size. So, for example, changing a page from A4 portrait to