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Mags,
Try this for saving your palette. If you want your special colors found at the bottom of your screen to reappear in new documents: FIRST save your file which has the desired colors, select all objects and delete them, check your options (page size, orientation, units of measure, etc.) to make sure your other defaults are correct, then do a Save as template. In the dialog box check the "use template as default" box, and give it name. That should do it. This will but a .XAR file in Xara's template directory. Up to 12 (I think) files in this directory can appear in the File > New dialog screen.
OOPs, here is another method, which will work on a drawing-by-drawing basis. Open a new file AND leave the file with the colors you want to copy, open. Any objects in your original file that use the colors you want can be selected and copied and then pasted into your new file. Xara objects "remember" their respective "palette chip" colors are carry them where ever the go [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img] The new document's palette will be updated automatically.
There are also ways of importing palette files. Check your help file. Perhaps Sean S. can refer you to an earlier posting.
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I am no expert at colors, but I do know that with my Epson, complex "bitmap effects" (shadows, feather, bevels, etc.) can trip up inkjet output. Go to your print > options > output and try the "print as bitmap" options. That may help.
[This message was edited by John S. Clements on September 01, 2001 at 17:20.]
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thanks for that john, i have now got my colour palette saved in a template file