Quote Originally Posted by PMH View Post
I'm new to this. I have a rectangle with a fill color. I want to overlay onto this fill color a crosshatch pattern in grey.

How do I do this?
Well I do this all the time.

The way I do it, I take a micropoint pen, hand-draw a cross hatch pattern (I usually want it to look hand-drawn), scan it, save it as a JPG.

Then in Xara I select my shape with a color fill, copy the shape, import the scanned hand-drawn hatch, apply it as an image fill (sometimes applying repeating image), then apply stained-glass transparency - and voila you now have a shape in color, with cross hatch on top.

Attached is an example of a local scale map of a stream or river that uses both hand-drawn linework and Xara created color shapes... (in this case the entire map is a hand-drawn, scanned, stained-glass layer on top of the color filled shapes below it, but same process, same result.)

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