As always, we will be using Pixels as our units of measure. Right click on the screen and select Page Options... from the pop up menu. In the Units tabbed section, select Pixels for the Units and 0-255 for the Color Units. In the Grid and Ruler tabbed section set the Major Spacing to 100pix (key it in exactly like this please) and the Number of Subdivisions to 10. Press OK to close the dialog and apply the changes.

NOTE: You will notice from time to time I apply arbitrary colors to objects. I do this to make the objects easier to see. If I do not specify a fill for an object, you do not have to apply a fill or outline color.

When I show an ellipse or rectangle that has just been created, that has no fill, it is because I have set the fill to none before I exported the illustration. By default, all ellipses, rectangles and Quick Shapes have a black outline and a black fill. There is nothing wrong with your copy of Xara.

Leroy Stanley's Printing TIP: Printing the Xara tutorials and WebXealots cuts off some of the right hand side of the page. Here is how I get around this problem. In Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5, select Page Set Up (File pull down menu) change the margin settings from 1" all around to .25" for the left and right margins, and .300 for the top margin. You must leave the bottom margin at .70 These settings will remain until you change the settings again.

Create a rectangle 430 pixels wide by 300 pixels tall. You can refer to the Height and Width box on the Infobar at the top of the screen to make sure the rectangle is drawn to the correct size. With the rectangle, and the Rectangle Tool still selected, click the Curved Corners icon (the arc) on the Infobar.

Select the Text Tool, click on the page and key in IT'S NOT CARVED IN STONE. I have used a font called Review. The same font is on the Xara X CD in the Fonts folder and is called Roost . Highlight the text (drag the Text Tool cursor over all the letters) and change the size to 48 points. With the text still highlighted, click the Center Justify icon on the Infobar (the five centered lines icon) to center the text. Click the down facing Line Spacing arrow until it reads 75.0. Click the right facing Tracking adjustment arrow until it reads 200.

Installing Fonts: To install a font from the CD, open the Fonts Gallery (the Aa icon on the Infobar). Press Disc Fonts... (The Xara X CD must be in your CD drive). Find the Fonts folder on the Xara CD then find the folder Xara Info. Select this folder and press Add. Xara will create a directory of all fonts on the CD in the Fonts Gallery.

Xara does not install the actual fonts on your hard drive, only a preview of each font. That is what the Xara Info folder is for.

Once you have added the font folders to the Font Gallery, locate the Decorative Fonts folder, then locate Roost. Select Roost and press Install . Xara will ask if this is OK. Press Install to answer yes.