The Xara Trompe L'Oeil Room Page 3
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Using the Rectangle Tool and holding down the Ctrl key, draw two 20 pixel squares and center them as shown under the inverted teardrop shape. Select the bottom rectangle and the Rectangle Tool, and click the Curved Corners icon to round the corners a little bit.

In case you were wondering, we now have the elements to make a hot air balloon symbol.

TIP : To align the objects, select Alignment from the Arrange pull down menu to open the Object Alignment menu and select Align Centrally from the Horizontal Positions drop down list.

NESTED TIP: You can click in the preview window to intuitively align the selected objects. The preview objects will rearrange themselves to reflect the change. Holding down the Shift key aligns the objects in a vertical column while the Ctrl key aligns the objects in a horizontal column.

Using the Selector Tool (the arrow) select the inverted teardrop shape and the small square. (You can marquee select or hold down the Shift key to multiple select objects).

With the two shapes selected, select Combine Shapes > Add Shapes from the Arrange menu.

NOTE: Xara's Combine Shapes options are path commands. Add Shapes creates one continous outline and eliminates all overlapping lines as you can see.

I've restored the color to show the sign as it looks now.

Select the black outline for the smaller square and from the Arrange menu, select Convert Line to Shape. This changes the outline into a closed path that can be filled with solid or other kinds of fills. This is a powerful new feature for Xara X.

Select the black outline shape and the two balloon shapes and from the Arrange menu select Join to make one continuous shape.