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Table Of Contents
- Purchasing and unlocking Xara Web Designer 7 Premium
- Support
- What is new in Xara Web Designer 7 Premium?
- Introduction
- Getting Help
- Getting Started
- Program Layout
- Objects On The Page
- Object Based Web Design
- The Selector Tool
- Website Toolbar
- Creating a website
- Previewing Your Website
- Using Templates, Clipart & Widgets
- Website Colors
- Photos
- Text
- Page Size
- Saving Your Work. Creating A Website
- Stretchy Objects
- Groups
- Repeating Objects
- Links, Buttons & Navigation Bars
- Drawing Tools
- Right-click menus
- Layers, Mouseover (Rollover) & Pop-ups
- Creating Buttons, Banners And Other Web Graphics
- Publishing Your Website
- Document handling
- Starting Xara Web Designer 7 Premium
- Starting a new document
- Opening an existing document
- The Xara Web Designer 7 Premium window
- Opening a second window
- Changing the zoom value
- Sliding the document within the window
- Changing the page size
- Multiple pages in the document
- Saving the document
- Support folders
- Closing the document
- Automatic Backups
- On-screen grid
- Rulers
- View quality
- Galleries
- Displaying a gallery
- Moving and docking a gallery
- Grouping galleries
- Using galleries
- Selecting items
- Re-ordering items in the gallery
- Searching for an item name
- Adding to a gallery
- Deleting sections from a gallery
- Closing a gallery
- Removing a gallery from the workspace
- Restoring the default control bars/galleries
- Undo and Redo
- Object Handling
- The Selector Tool
- Moving objects
- Removing objects from the document
- Duplicating and cloning
- Moving objects forward and backwards
- Rotating objects
- Scaling (resizing) objects
- Flipping objects
- Stretching and squashing objects
- Skewing objects
- The Mold tool
- Snapping
- Guide Objects and Guidelines
- Summary of shortcuts on the numeric keypad
- Grouping and ungrouping objects
- Soft Groups
- Alignment
- Copying Styles: Paste Attributes
- Naming objects
- Repeating Objects
- Drawing Lines and Shapes
- Drawing a line or shape
- The Freehand & Brush Tool
- Editing lines/shapes with the Freehand & Brush Tool
- The Straight Line & Arrow tool
- The Shape Editor tool
- Extending the line
- Finishing the line
- Adding a new point handle
- Selecting multiple point handles
- Deleting points
- Moving point handles—Shape Editor Tool
- Smoothing a line
- Constraining the line
- Changing curves
- Changing a straight line to a curve (and vice versa)
- Joining lines
- Splitting a shape
- Changing the line width (thickness)
- Line Gallery
- Shape Handling
- Color Handling
- The color line
- Applying fill & line colors by drag & drop
- Editing an object’s color
- The Color Editor
- Local colors and Theme colors
- Theme color schemes
- Creating your own color schemes
- Creating new named colors
- Editing named colors
- Normal colors, Tints, Shades and Linked colors
- Creating a Tint, Shade or Linked color
- Text Handling
- Introduction
- Terminology
- The Text Tool
- The Font Menu
- Simple text
- Text in a column
- Text areas
- Text along a curve
- Editing text
- Spell checker
- Find & Replace
- Synchronising Text using Soft Groups
- Tabs, Margins and Indents
- Repelling text objects
- Anchored Graphics
- Applying text styles
- Text links
- Text inside groups for websites
- Copying text styles
- Copying/Pasting formatted text (RTF)
- Seeing fonts in use
- Font embedding
- Browser text compatibility
- The Fill Tool
- Shadows
- Transparency
- Bevels
- Masks
- Web Properties Dialog
- Photo Handling
- Introduction
- Photo Objects
- Photo Groups
- Importing Photos
- Photo resolution
- Zero-memory Copies
- The Bitmap Gallery
- Embedded JPEG files
- Lossless vs. Lossy
- Blending & Merging photos
- Photo display quality
- Saving & Exporting Photos
- Photo Edit Attributes
- Editing the outline of Photos
- Cropping photos
- Cropping photos with a mask
- Cutting objects out of photos
- Screen capture utility
- Coloring photos
- Integration with external Photo Editors
- Resize, rotate and position a photo within its frame
- Horizon Straighten
- Viewing a scaled photo at its full size
- Making a photo its full size
- Optimizing Photos and Bitmaps
- Photo Documents
- Editing Photo Files
- The Photo Tools
- 3D Extrude Tool
- Navigation Bars
- Using template Navbars
- Navigation bar properties dialog
- Site navigation bar
- Buttons & Menus
- Updating your Navbar across all pages
- On canvas editing
- Changing the font on Navbar buttons
- Importing & pasting Navbars
- Creating your own Navigation Bars
- Button margins
- Advanced - Editing a Navbar button design
- Navbars with different first or last buttons
- Website Presentations
- The Presentation toolbar
- Creating a presentation
- Managing presentation steps
- Adding new presentation pages
- Deleting presentation pages
- Linking to next/previous step
- Applying transitions to presentation step links
- Applying presentation step transitions
- Applying presentation page transitions
- Advanced presentation information
- Hosting remote presentation sessions
- Website Widgets
- Page & Layer Gallery
- Animations
- Introduction
- Core Principles
- Your First Animation
- Exporting a Flash File
- Exporting animations as AVI
- The Animation Frame Gallery
- Photos
- Animation Frame Rate and Tween Steps
- Cropping, Clipping and Animation Size
- Animation Speed
- Animation smoothness
- Rotation
- Groups
- What Xara Web Designer 7 Premium features does Flash support?
- Color Transforms—Animating Color Changes
- Transparency
- URLs in Flash
- Advanced Flash Commands
- Xara Web Designer 7 Premium Flash Animation Summary
- Creating animated GIFs
- Animation properties
- Printing
- Importing and Exporting
- Customizing Web Designer Premium
- Changing the blank template document
- Displaying your own icons in browser tabs: favicons
- Options in the Utilities menu
- General tab
- Recent file list size
- Current layer always visible and editable
- Ask before setting current attribute
- Make groups be transparent as a whole.
- Maintain imported layer names
- Marquee Object Selection
- Angle constraint
- Document is intended to be a website
- Show Windows compatible text lengths
- Nudge size
- Duplication distance
- Grid and Ruler tab
- Mouse tab
- Page Size tab
- Backups Tab
- Control bars
- Menus and Keyboard Shortcuts
- Introduction
- File menu
- New (Standard control bar or Ctrl+N)
- New from Designs Gallery
- Open (Standard control bar or Ctrl+O)
- Open recent
- Close (Ctrl+W)
- Save (Standard control bar or Ctrl+S)
- Save As
- Save All
- Save Template
- Import (Ctrl+Alt+I)
- Export (Ctrl+Shift+E)
- Export JPEG
- Export PNG
- Preview web page (F12)
- Preview Website
- Export Website
- Publish Website
- Preview Flash
- Export Animation
- Document Info
- Page Options
- Printer Setup
- Print Options
- Print (Ctrl+P)
- Exit
- Edit menu
- Undo (Standard control bar or Ctrl+Z)
- Redo (Standard control bar or Ctrl+Y)
- Cut (Edit control bar or Ctrl+X)
- Copy (Edit control bar or Ctrl+C)
- Paste (Edit control bar or Ctrl+V)
- Delete (Edit & Standard control bars or Delete)
- Select All (Ctrl+A)
- Clear Selection / Reset current attributes (Esc)
- Duplicate (Edit control bar or Ctrl+Alt+D)
- Clone (Ctrl+K)
- Pages
- Arrange menu
- Move to Layer in Front (Arrange control bar or Ctrl+Shift+U)
- Bring to Front (Arrange control bar or Ctrl+F)
- Move Forwards (Arrange control bar or Ctrl+Shift+F)
- Move Backwards (Arrange control bar or Ctrl+Shift+B)
- Put to Back (Arrange control bar or Ctrl+B)
- Move To Layer Behind (Arrange control bar or Ctrl+Shift+D)
- Group (Arrange control bar or Ctrl+G)
- Ungroup (Arrange control bar or Ctrl+U)
- Apply soft group (Ctrl+Alt+G)
- Remove soft group (Ctrl+Alt+U)
- Alignment (Ctrl+Shift+L)
- Fit Text to Curve/Remove Text From Curve
- Repelling and Anchoring
- Create Navigation Bar
- Repeat on all pages (Shift+Ctrl+Alt+R)
- Stop updating (Shift+Ctrl+Alt+O)
- Utilities menu
- Window menu
- Clear Selection / Reset current attributes (Esc)
- Multiple Page View
- New View
- Arrange Views
- Animation
- Show Scrollbars
- Show Rulers (Ctrl + L)
- Control Bars
- Quality (Standard control bar)
- Show Document Tabs
- Full Screen (8 on numeric keypad)
- Show Grid (#)
- Show Guides (1 on numeric keypad)
- Show Print Borders
- Snap to Grid (. on numeric keypad)
- More about Xara Group
- Legal
Support
If you purchased Xara Web Designer 7 Premium from Xara you can contact Xara support and if you
purchased from MAGIX you can contact MAGIX support, full details are given below.
Xara Support
http://support.xara .com
Our own support site offers comprehensive FAQ page (frequently asked questions) which is
constantly updated and available 24 hours, 7 days a week; always the best source for instant
answers. You can also contact our technical support staff using the form on this page, if you
cannot find the answer to your question!
If you are an owner of a Xara product you can also submit a ticket to our support staff via the
support site above, but please remember we can only respond during office hours! Please note
TalkGraphics members cannot help with Xara account issues.
If you can't find the answer in this manual, we highly recommend viewing the Web Designer movie
tutorials
. It is the ideal way to get to know Xara Web Designer 7 Premium and get an overview of its features,
allowing you to make the most of the program.
If you need some help using this program, here are some sources of information that may be of use:
Program help - Choose "Xara Web Designer 7 Premium Help" from the "Help" menu to
open Xara Web Designer 7 Premium Help (containing hundreds of pages of information).
Status bar - Try reading the text on the status bar at the bottom of the main Xara Web Designer
7 Premium window. It always describes what actions are currently possible and what they will do
(even during drags), and helps you learn to use the Xara Web Designer 7 Premium tools. It also
gives details of what buttons and controls do as you move the pointer over them. See Status Bar
for more details.
ToolTips - If you hold the mouse pointer over a button or control for a short while, then small
message appears telling you what it does.
Menus - If you want to know what a menu item does, highlight it and press "F1".
Dialog boxes - If you want to know what a dialog box does or how to use it, click Help.
Movies - Use the menu option "Help" > "Movies" or click here to view a list of available
movies.
The TalkGraphics forums - Post your question in the popular, dedicated Xara forums at
TalkGraphics.com (www.talkgraphics.com), where you can ask other Xara Web Designer 7
Premium users for advice or suggestions ? available 24x7. You can share tips and ideas, ask
questions or offer solutions to other users.
Xara Xone - Visit the Xara Xone (www.xaraxone.com) for a host of excellent Xara support
resources.
"The Outsider" newsletter (www.xara.com/outsider) Subscribe to our monthly newsletter "The
Outsider" (with monthly tutorials and tips, offers, inspirational art, and more).
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MAGIX Support
Dear MAGIX customer,
Our aim is to provide convenient, fast and solution-focused support at all times. To this end, we offer a
wide range of services:
Unlimited web support:
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