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Exports the whole page area together with visible objects on the page area only.

Transparency and layers
Xara Designer Pro X's transparency types are all compatible with Photoshop
transparency (blending mode) types (apart from Enhance mode). But because Xara
Designer Pro X is vector object-based, it’s possible for each individual object to have its
own transparency type and value. In Photoshop this is not possible, and you can only set
the opacity or blending mode for a whole layer.
If you are exporting using the legacy method of mapping Designer Pro layers to
Photoshop layers rather than the default option of exporting Designer Pro objects to
Photoshop layers - then combining objects that use different types of transparency on the
same layer in Xara Designer Pro X, will prompt an alert - warning you of this when you
export. This may look OK when you export.

Text
You can export text from Xara Designer Pro X to be editable text in Photoshop, but the
text must be on a layer on its own (on import you may be asked to update the text
objects for them to be editable in Photoshop.)
Text that is on a layer with any other graphic objects will be rasterized into that layer, and
thus not be editable. So for this reason it is recommended that you choose the default
export option - EXPORT EACH OBJECT AS A PS LAYER.

Export DPI
You will be able to set the DPI of the bitmaps in the exported PSD file.

A DPI of 96 is the normal
Windows screen resolution,
and so exporting at 96dpi will
appear in Photoshop at the
same size at 100% as it does
at 100% in Xara Designer Pro
X.

For print work you should choose a higher DPI.