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596 Importing and Exporting

You can export files in PDF version 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6 and 1.7 formats as well as the
following PDF/X standards:

• PDF/X-1a:2001 (ISO 15930-1).
• PDF/X-1a:2003 (ISO 15930-4).
• PDF/X-3:2002 (ISO 15930-3).
• PDF/X-3:2003 (ISO 15930-6).
• PDF/X-4:2008 (ISO 15930-7).
Objects not supported by PDF

Some Xara Designer Pro X features do not exist in PDF, so the conversion to PDF has to
simulate these features, usually by converting to a bitmap or bitmap fill.

Transparency
PDF version 1.3 does not support transparency. Any objects containing transparency will
be exported as bitmaps, a process sometimes called "flattening". Xara Designer Pro X
does this automatically. The resulting PDF file should still look correct however.
Transparency Types

Xara Designer Pro X supports a number of different transparency types and ten of these
have direct equivalents in PDF/X-4.

• Normal (Mix)
• Screen (Bleach) .
• Multiply (Stained Glass).
• Color Dodge
• Color Burn
• Hardlight
• Overlay
• Softlight
• Luminosity
• Color

Other transparency types in Xara Designer Pro X have no direct PDF equivalents, so
they are converted to bitmap in the PDF file.
Fill types
Fill types flat, linear, circular and elliptical are all mapped directly to equivalent PDF
types, but the other more complex fill types (Conical, Diamond, Three Color, Four Color,
Fractal Cloud fills and Fractal Plasma fills) supported by Xara Designer Pro X have to be
represented using bitmap fills in the PDF.
ClipViews

The PDF export filter does not directly support ClipViews comprised of lines or text.
Convert all lines and text to shapes to ensure that a ClipView that contains these objects
is properly converted.