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Thank you Albacore, I never thought of approaching it that way either. Its always neat learning new tricks. You guys are awesome. As I get better at this over time I will be contributing a lot...

Thanks guys, I will explore the various options provided here. Its quite obvious that there are different ways to go about this. I will have to see which one is the most efficient after playing...

Hey guys, I came accross this poster today and am wanting to try and recreate it for fun. My problem lies in making grungy/splatters. In photoshop I have brushes thay handle this but I am sure...

Hey Gary, I noticed also when you choose advanced settings and export a normal 300 dpi pdf file, you can choose the color profile. Is this also acceptable? More curious than anything. Also you...

You beat me to it lol. I would do exactly what amoore recommended! A very quick and rough idea of it is shown in my example above, the furthers on the left of the 3 button samples.

Yes Mike my file did include bleeds. I did a bit more digging and found this link http://www.xaraxone.com/webxealot/workbook49/page_1.htm I do see that cmyk is much more limiting in colors, but I...

all three of these can done easily, not sure what effect you are after.

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Hey Kathleen,

Are you trying to create the effect on the picture you uploaded, or are you trying to get an outline around the letters?

thanks Mike, when you say xara is like flying blind, should I not be using xara for print material design?

Here is the file in question, a business card that I exported using Xara's default...

sorry I should add, I thought xara defaulted in cmyk colors, yet when I simulate print colors it throws everything off. I guess I am looking for guidelines for document setups to avoid this problem...

Hey guys, I have gotten this a couple of times from printers, and am not sure what I should be doing different to setup my documents for print in xara. Here is what the printer asks.

Could you...

Thank you. I will know better next time :)

Thanks AndFarr, will check it out later tonight when I look at GW's suggestion as well.

Hey amoore, my appologies, I didn't even realize there was a Fonts & typography section. I will do that in the future. Thank you!

Hey gwpriester, I will give that a shot tomorrow. I will see how much the font costs. Thank you kindly.

Hey guys, I understand you sometimes help people that are in a pickle?

I have a client that had a logo done a long time ago but does not have the art work, so I offered to help him out and redo...

Gary those are good points, looking at it under the customers pov. I guess I don't like sending out things that I see flaws in lol. I will try printing it and see. I just see some really nice PDF...

Thanks for the comments, lately I've been using JPG or PNG to show my work, however they can't see that it is a VECTOR graphic with these formats. I agree with Gary that the PDF generally look...

here is a sample.

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Thanks for the reply, To be truthful this sometimes happens on a simple form that I make. Let me see if I can find an example. I don't ever really use any life effect plugins or anything like that.

Hey Guys, I'm currently using xara designer pro 6, thinking of upgrading to the latest version for my newer business. One of the issues I have, and I could of have sworn it wasn't as much of a...