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              Online editing in the Cloud

              Designer Pro can now sync files via Dropbox and Google Drive. These services provide
              free file storage in the Cloud, and a small desktop utility that can be installed on your PC
              that will automatically sync files saved on your hard disk to the cloud.
              Designer Pro will notice if files have changed, and will automatically reload updated files.
              It means that you can have the same file open on multiple computers, and if you make
              an edit, and save the file, then it will be updated in Designer Pro on the other computers.
              Further, using cloud based file sharing, you can share the file with someone else, and
              whenever they edit the file and save, your version will be updated, and vice versa.

              This does not solve the problem of edit clashes. So if you edit the file and at the same
              time someone else edits the same file, then Designer Pro will tell you there has been an
              edit and give you the choice of opening the updated file in a new document.

              For more details see the quick start guide for Xara Online Designer here
              http://kovemi.xara.hosting/XOLDesigner-Intro/

               Xara Online Designer, Online editing, Online, Document sync, Dropbox sync, cloud.xara



              Selected document and title bar


              You can have more than one file open at a time in Designer Pro, which displays all open
              documents as tabs at the top of the workspace.

              The current document is displayed in the workspace and its name is highlighted gray in
              the document tabs. Right click on a document tab for a menu of document operations.
              The current document type is indicated in the top left corner of the Designer Pro window,
              next to the menu options. The current document receives all input. Any unsaved changes
              in a document are indicated with a star after the file name.



              Document tabs show all open documents, with the current document tab highlighted gray.


              Control bars

              These contain buttons that you can use to operate Designer Pro. You can customize
              control bars in several ways, such as re-ordering, creating, and hiding bars.
              The default window shows the standard button bar with commonly used buttons:
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