The Xara Trompe L'Oeil Room  Page 6
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Select the mask shape and the X and "The Xara Xone" text.

Press Ctrl 2 to subtract the text shapes from the mask.

The mask shape has been grayed out so you can see what we are doing to the duplicate Xara Xone text.

Select the duplicate text and then select the Fill Tool. Apply a Circular Fill using the two colors shown on the left.

HOW TO: Select the text, then the Fill Tool. Select Circular from the drop down list of Fill Types on the Infobar. Click on the end squares then open the Color Editor and edit the colors.

One last step. Select the "Xara Xone" text and convert it to Editable Shapes (Arrange menu). With the text selected, select Join from the Arrange menu. Editable text comes into Flash as separate characters which you would otherwise have to select and group.

We finally have our elements to make our Flash movie. Name and individually export the three items in Macromedia Flash (*.swf) file format.

Name the text, text.swf, the mask, mask.swf and the pie chart-shaped thing, circlemask.swf.

Save your Xara file and take a break. We're ready to add the Flash magic.