Page 136 - Xara Designer Pro X17

136 Shape Handling

The green handle top left opens the shape to allow data input - switch between decimal
and percentage values. There is a 15 entry limit - but if you enter more than 15 the
segment labels cleverly reformat to display an indicator pointing to the relevant segment.

Shows the Data Input Form area. You can show / hide this using the green handle top left.

Using the TEXT TOOL click in the lower data input area and type label, value pairs as
required. As you edit this the pie chart is updated live. Each time you add a new entry on
a new line, a new pie segment is created. You can also drag the handles on the edge of
the pie slices and the corresponding data values change in proportion.

You can also import data from other sources if you want to - just paste into the data input
panel. The pie charts also support data taken from Excel and Google spreadsheets, just
make sure you paste the data as unformatted text.

Coloring the pie chart
The pie segments use THEME COLOR 1 TO 5 for the first five segments, and then lighter
and darker shades of these colors for the next ten segments. If your document contains
more than five slices, it will use lighter and darker shades of THEME COLOR 1 TO 5 for the
next ten segments. If you do not have any THEME COLOR defined, the slice will appear
black and you will have to manually color the segment.

To color any segment, first click it (this will pull out the selected segment), and now click
a color on the COLOR LINE.

Editing label text
If you change the whole text of any label e.g. the color, font or size, they all change to
reflect this. To change an individual label, give it an alternative TEXT STYLE (on page
263). You’ll notice labels on the left side are left aligned and right side labels right
aligned.

If you want to change the relative size of the pie to the text, use the orange Radius
handle to resize the pie.