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Attention: Only Xara Designer Pro & Photo & Graphic Designer can import PSD files with
16bit colors or CMYK color model

TIFF Import
Xara Designer Pro X TIFF import supports a much wider range of TIFF file types,
including:
• CMYK TIFF files.
• Fax TIFF files (black and white images. Multi-page faxes will be imported as multiple
pages into Xara Designer Pro X).
• TIFF with transparency (if exporting a TIFF from Photoshop (Save As) you can select
the SAVE TRANSPARENCY checkbox).
• Mac or PC byte order TIFF files.
• TIFF with layers and transparency (if saved from Photoshop the rules for blend mode
compatibility are the same as for PSD files).
• JPEG in TIFF (transparency is not possible in this case).

Usually TIFF files have a file extension of .tif.

PDF Import
PDF is a complex vector graphics format that has evolved over 10 years or more and
contains numerous sub-formats and options. PDF was designed as a portable document
format for viewing and printing only, and was not intended as a file format for transferring
data between applications. However Xara Designer Pro X should load the vast majority
of PDF files.

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

The following points are worth noting:
• Multi-page PDF files are imported as multi-page documents in Xara Designer Pro X.
• 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 Designer Pro X 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 (on page
178) to view this layer.
• PDF files make liberal use of clipping. This appears in Xara Designer Pro X as
ClipView objects, and so it’s often necessary to use "ARRANGE > REMOVE CLIPVIEW" in
order to edit the objects on the page.
• Any annotations in the PDF file are imported onto a separate layer called “PDF
annotations” in your Xara Designer Pro X document.