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To "tear off" a tool or control bar drag any portion that is not a button or icon onto the page. To dock a tool or control bar, drag the title bar area at the top of the floating bar to the edge of the page where you want the bar to be docked. A Folder is a directory on a disk containing files. You can add folders of files to some of the galleries. When you add a folder of files to a gallery the program creates an index for the files and creates a small 'thumbnail' image of each of the files in the folder. When you open the Gallery, you will see small versions of all the files in the folder you added. For more information on adding folders to a gallery see WebXealots 23 and 24. HOW TO: To add images and fills to the galleries, create a folder on your hard drive containing the Xara images or bitmap images you wish to create a folder for (Bitmap and Xara images go in the Clipart Gallery, bitmap images to be used for fills go into the Fill Gallery). Open the appropriate gallery and click either Disc Fills... or Disc Clipart... and browse to the folder containing your images. Select the folder and press Add. Xara will inform you that no index exists and would you like Xara to create one for you. Indicate that you would like this, and Xara will create the folder and small thumbnail and add it to the selected gallery. A Font is a collection of characters which are all designed in a particular style. Many different types of fonts are available and often the difference between them is very subtle. A font often has several variants, the commonest being Bold and Italic. A font most commonly refers to one style or weight in a group of styles and weights which are referred to collectively as a typeface. For example, the typeface Times Roman might be comprised of these styles and weights: Times Roman Regular, Times Roman Regular Italic, Times Roman Bold, Times Roman Bold Italic. While most computer typefaces only contain four fonts, it is possible for a typeface to contain many more weights such as thin or light, regular or book, medium, bold, demi bold, bold and black.
Four Point Transparency is the transparency equivalent of the Four Color Fill and consists of four points, arranged as a parallelogram, each with its own transparency level. The transparency of the object is defined by the graduations between these transparency handles. Four point transparency is enormously flexible and ideal for drawing highlights and complex looking transparency effects. For more details, and a list of transparency types, see the Transparency Tool overview in WebXealot 21.
TIP: The arrow keys on your keyboard provide additional controls when the inside or outside control handles are selected in either a Fractal Cloud or Fractal Plasma fill or corresponding transparencies. With the center control handle selected, the arrow keys move the center of the fill. With either outside handle selected the up and down keys rotate the fill while the left and right arrow keys increase the decreases the size of the fill.
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Full Screen Mode gives the maximum possible screen area for the editing window. No Title Bar, Menu Bar, Scroll bars or Status Line are displayed. Move the pointer to the top of the screen to display the Menu Bar. The alternative to Full screen mode is Normal Mode. Pressing the 8 key on your keyboard's numeric keypad (with Num Lock enabled) toggles between Full Screen and Normal Mode. For more details, see Switching to full screen mode in Xara's Help files. |
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Fill Arrows (also referred to as Fill Path
Arrows) are shown on filled objects and are used to edit the fills. The Fill Handles (the tiny squares) at the ends of the arrows can be clicked and dragged to move the fill.
Some Fill Arrows have fill handles on the ends which allow colors to be applied to the fill. For most fill types you can drop colors onto the Fill arrow to create multistage fills.
Film is a photographic material used for
imagesetting. One side of the film is coated with photographic emulsion which is exposed during processing. Depending on the requirements of your print shop, the image can be normal or reflected, positive
or negative. This is referred to as right reading (the letters are not reversed) and emulsion side up or emulsion side down. Film used to make printing
plates is called lithographic film and can only be black or clear. Any shading has to be accomplished by the use of screens of tiny dots. For more information, see Printing and Imagesetting in 
Flipping Flipping an object is as if it was
reflected in a mirror. This process is sometimes called 'mirroring' or 'reflecting'. Two icons on the Infobar (shown on the left) flip a selection horizontally or vertically.
Floating Xara's Toolbars and Control bars are
"docked" to the edges of the screen. Any of these Toolbars and Control bars can be "torn off" and floated anywhere on the page. Shown on the left is Xara's main Toolbar in the undocked, or floating,
configuration. Floating control bars and toolbars may be resized by dragging on their edges with the Selector Tool.
Four Color Fills are similar to three color
fills and give the effect of four colored spotlights lighting the object. The fill is controlled using four fill handles in a parallelogram. You can apply different colors to all four handles. The object can contain
just one copy of the fill with the colors spreading to infinity, (Simple) or multiple copies (Repeating). Four Color fills are a type of gradient fill and contain four end
handles to which colors may be applied. The handles can be dragged with the Fill Tool cursor to reconfigure the fill. Four Color fills are similar to one
cell in a gradient mesh fill found in CorelDRAW and Adobe Illustrator. See the Fill Tool overview in 
Fractal Cloud Fill is one of Xara 11 fill types
that produces a patchy random fill which is especially useful for simulating clouds or mist. Fractal Cloud Fills are two color fills. Adjusting the color and fill handles adjusts the cloud pattern as do the Infobar
settings. Right clicking on a Fractal Cloud Fill brings up two additional controls on the Infobar: Fractal Graininess and Resolution, both of which provide additional adjustments. There are three Fill Effect settings:
Fade, Rainbow and Alt Rainbow. There are also three Fill Tiling options: Single Tile, Repeating Tile, and Repeating Inverted. Profile settings found on the Infobar
provide additional controls. For more information, see the Fill Tool overview in 
Fractal Cloud Transparency produces a
patchy, random transparency similar to clouds or mist. The three transparency handles give control of the block of fractal texture used to control the transparency of the object. One handle moves the entire
fractal and the other two scale, skew and rotate it. The start handles control the start transparency for the fractal, the end handle controls the end transparency. For more details, see the Transparency Tool overview in 
Fractal Plasma Fill is another of Xara's 11
fill types that produces a patchy random fill which has more contrast than a fractal cloud fill. Fractal Plasma fills have all the same Infobar options as Fractal Clouds fills. For more information, see the
Fill Tool overview in 
Fractal Plasma Transparency produces a
patchy, random transparency which has more contrast than a Fractal Cloud transparency. The three transparency handles give control of the block of fractal texture used to control the transparency of
the object. One handle moves the entire fractal and the other two scale, skew and rotate it. The start handles control the start transparency for the fractal, the end handle
controls the end transparency. The same transparency options that exist for Fractal Clouds transparency apply to the Fractal Plasma transparency. For more details, see the Transparency Tool overview in 
The Freehand and Brush Tool Infobar
is a context sensitive display of options that appear when the Freehand and Brush Tool is selected and apply specifically to this tool. For more information see the Freehand and Brush Tool overview in 
