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As always, we will be working in Pixels. If you have forgotten how to do this, open the Page Options dialog (right click on an empty portion of the screen and select Page Options or Utilities > Options). In the Units tabbed section, select Pixels from the drop down list, and set the Color Units: to 0-255.

In the Grid and Ruler tabbed section set the Major Spacing: to 100pix (key it in exactly like this with no spaces) and the Number of Subdivisions: to 10.

If you do not see your screen rulers, go to the Window pull down menu and select Bars > Rulers .

Enable Snap to Grid. (found in the Window pull down menu).

Select the Rectangle Tool on the main toolbar on the left of the screen.

Click and drag a rectangle that is 250 pixels wide by 150 pixels tall. Refer to the size on the context-sensitive Infobar at the top of the screen and do not release the mouse button until the rectangle is this exact size. The reason for this rigidity is we will be rounding the corners of the rectangle and in order for the corners to be perfectly round, the rectangle must be drawn to the exact size, and not resized which will result in non-round corners.

With the rectangle and the Rectangle Tool still selected, click the Curved Corners icon on the Infobar at the top of the screen (it's the inverted L- shaped button).

There are two methods to round corners in Xara. The first is to drag the outside control points on the corners with the Rectangle Tool cursor. The second is to select Curvature from the drop down list on the Infobar and click the right arrow button. In either case, we want a curvature setting of 0.7.

Using the Rectangle Tool, draw a second rectangle, 170 pixels wide by 50 pixels tall. Again, draw the rectangle to the exact size before releasing the mouse button.

Any questions?