Page 178 - Xara Designer Pro X17

178 Page & Layer Gallery

Page & Layer Gallery

The Page & Layer Gallery

By default the PAGE & LAYER GALLERY is displayed on the right hand side of the Designer
Pro window when you open the program. You can pin, move or dock the gallery - see
Galleries (on page 61) for more information.

You can open and close the gallery by clicking the PAGE & LAYER GALLERY tab on

the Galleries bar, or press F10.
The PAGE & LAYER GALLERY lists everything in your document, from the pages and layers
right down to each individual item on the page. It provides a way to select, hide, lock and
re-arrange these items.

It works at many different levels: PAGES, LAYERS, PRESENTATION STEPS and OBJECTS. The
hierarchy of items is like this:

Pages
Layers/steps
Page items, which may include
groups
Group contents

Some of the key features of the PAGE & LAYER GALLERY include:
Page control
• Displays a list of pages
• Pages mode displays a narrow list of page thumbnails for easy page navigation
• Add new page, duplicate, cut, copy and paste or delete pages.
• Re-arrange the page order by dragging
• Rename pages (right-click > RENAME PAGE)

Layer control
• Displays a list of all layers on each page, from the bottom (usually background layer)
to the top most layer
• In a presentation document, displays a list of all presentation steps and layers on each
page, from the first to the last
• Create new layers, delete, re-order and rename layers
• Hide or show layers
• Lock layers (which makes the layer non-editable)
• Solo a layer - turn all other layers off

Object control
Display a list of all items (objects) on the page in the stacking order they appear on the
page, bottom to top.
• Hide or show any item