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data between applications. However Xara Web Designer Premium should load the vast
majority of PDF files.

PDF is now the recommended way of transferring vector files from Adobe Illustrator to
Xara Web Designer Premium. Save as PDF and then import the resulting file into Xara
Web Designer Premium.

The following points are worth noting:
• Multi-page PDF files are imported as multi-page documents in Xara Web Designer
Premium.
• Text in PDF files is typically broken into many separate small text objects in the PDF
file. This doesn’t stop it viewing and printing, but means when imported what might
appear as one or more continuous paragraphs of text is not. Xara Web Designer
Premium tries to re-assemble the lines of text into lines and paragraphs of editable
text, but often you will find the text broken into separate text objects.
• In order to make it easier to extract just the text of a PDF file, a new layer is created
containing just the text on that PDF page. Use the PAGE & LAYER GALLERY to view this
layer.

What might not work:
• Many PDF files include embedded fonts. It’s not possible to legally extract and install
these fonts onto your system. So if you do not already have the fonts used in the PDF
file you will find alternative fonts have been substituted.
• If you attempt to edit embedded subset fonts with the Print and Preview (on page 264)
permissions you will receive an restricted license font warning which you can either
cancel, or ignore (for the current session only).
• Files that are encrypted or password protected cannot be imported.

PDF is a highly complex format, and often can't be imported perfectly. The best way to
import it may depend on how you intend to use it. The "OPTIMISE FOR VIEWING" option
attempts to make the imported result look as similar to Acrobat as possible, but it may be
more difficult to edit (it could have many nested clipviews for example). The alternative
“OPTIMISE FOR EDITING" option strips out some constructs which are difficult to manually
edit (for example, nested clipviews).

Importing a Word document
You can easily import a Microsoft Word document (.docx). Simply drag and drop the file
from Windows Explorer, or else select "FILE" > "IMPORT".
Automatically flowing text areas

When you import a Word document Web Designer Premium automatically creates new
pages for you when text areas overflow the current page. So as you add more text or
images to your document - so the document automatically adds new pages to
accommodate them. When a new page is created, it's placed immediately following the
current page. The new page is just as it would be if you’d added it manually (it will have
the same background and repeating objects of the current page). But in addition it will