Filling Unclosed Shapes

Tip from Ivan Louette

Those who work with Illustrator and Freehand may be (only a little bit) frustrated because they don't find the ability to fill non closed vector shapes in Xara or Xara X. Nevertheless this is possible in only three steps:
1°-select your open shape(s) (here the five curves) toghether with a closed shape which has the filling you want to use (here the quadrangle with circular filling);
2°-go to "Arrange" and Join shapes;
3°-go again to "Arrange" and now Break shapes.

The filling is miraculously preserved and you can delete the closed shape, move and edit each shape separately like in Illustrator, ...but with all the marvellous things of Xara X !!!

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