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34 Document handling

Photo BLANK PHOTO If you load a JPEG photo into Xara
Designer Pro X it’s loaded as a photo
document. Photo documents are
used where the purpose of the
document is only to edit or produce a
photo.

Choosing the first entry A4 1-COLUMN creates a document based on the Designer Pro
default template.

Clicking the NEW button on the STANDARD control bar (shortcut "Ctrl +
N") also creates a document based on the default template.
Tip: Ctrl + Shift + N opens a new animation document.

When your new document opens, its tab is added to the top of the workspace with an
icon showing which type of document it is, as shown in the example below.

You can save your own templates with the "File" > "Save Template" command – see
Changing the template document (on page 624) for details.

Opening an existing document

To open an existing document:

• Drag & drop a file. Select the file in Windows Explorer or on your desktop, and drag it
over an existing open document to import it into that document, or any other part of the
Designer Pro window to open the document.
• Or double click a Designer Pro file.
• Or to open a recently used file, select it from "FILE" > "OPEN RECENT"
• Or select "FILE" > "OPEN" (shortcut "Ctrl + O").
• Or click the OPEN button on the standard control bar.

The open dialog will be displayed. The dialog allows multiple file selection, "Ctrl
+ click" to select several files or "Shift + click" to select a range of files.
As in Explorer windows, you can switch the file display to a detailed or thumbnail
view with this button

If SHOW PREVIEW in the upper right corner is checked, the selected file is shown in an
even bigger preview (this does not work for a multiple file selection).