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Contents

Introduction to Xara Designer Pro X 12
Welcome to Xara Designer Pro X 12

Getting Help 12
Support 12
Designer Pro terminology 15

Getting Started 17
Program Layout 17
Object Based Design 19
Layers 20
Drawing Tools 21
Right-click context menus 25
Using Templates & Clipart 26
Photos 29
Text 30
Page Size 31
Saving & Exporting Your Work. 31

Document handling 33
Starting a new document 33
Opening an existing document 34
Online editing in the Cloud 35
Selected document and title bar 35
Control bars 35
InfoBar 36
Main toolbar 37
The status line 37
The indicators 37
X/Y co-ordinates 38
Normal/full screen modes 38
Opening a second window 38
Changing the zoom value 39
Sliding the document within the window 40
Changing the page size 41
Multi-page Documents 45
Saving the document 50
Support folders 51
Closing the document 52
Automatic Backups 52
On-screen grid 55
Rulers 56