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Hey, looking good, Pauline. Nice to see one of your birds.

Lynn

I needed to use an "n" with a tilde over it today. Fortunately, I remembered this thread saying that the character could be copied and pasted from the Character Map. It worked just fine. I just had...

Hey, that's great, Frances! I will snag your explanation and save it for reference. As I thought, it's more complex than just holding Shift down.

Thank you.

Lynn

Thank you.

I had tried Shift drag, but had had little if any control over how the skew proceeded. Armed with your response, however, I went back and just kept trying, getting strange shapes,...

When I choose the Four-Part Fill, I get a rectangle. I want to change the shape of the fill by moving each of the four corner control points independently. I haven't been able to figure out how to do...

Thank you, Frances.

I have snagged your excellent mini-tip for future reference. (I'm glad Pauline asked!)

Lynn

I didn't have any more problems with closing the shapes once I understood that that was the problem. (I had thought I had a problem with the Fill Tool.)

Lynn

Thank you. I have tested what you said about brush files to see if I understood you correctly, and I did. Saving the brush by a distinctive name in a separate .xar file certainly makes it easier to...

I have been wondering about how you avoid accumulating a lot of clutter when you use the document you saved a brush or something in. I had thought perhaps you made a new page in the document for your...

First, I have to apologize. I had a bad experience with a question asked when learning another graphics program (I was told to "Read the manual" but not given any actual help), I should not have...

Handrawn,

When someone replies "Read the manual" and stops there, it comes across as not only discourteous but smart alecky. I agree that often the answer is in the manual. If someone says RTM and...

I am new to Xara, using DP 7. I am trying to apply a fill to a shape drawn with the Freehand and Brush Tool as done in the ice tutorial in Workbook 04. No matter what I do I can only get one color. I...

I'm left handed and used to position both pen and mouse to the left of my keyboard. However, when I replaced my old Wacom Graphite with an Intuos 3 several years ago, there was no room for the mouse...

I just watched your "In Depth" tutorial for the first time. I say "first time" because I will definitely be viewing it again and again! Thank you, and be assured I will be following your series with...

For a new user like me, this is not a refresher, it is first view. I just checked the Brushes section in the Designer Pro 7 Manual and it does not give any helpful information about creating and...

That's why I warned that I was oversimplifying! (Re the "shades".)

I am thinking that saving named colors is like saving a brush in Xara. You don't save to a brush folder, you save to a document....

Thank you for explaining that the "Untitled1" is what appears when I open a new document. And yes, it is the color palette I saved as the default template. What I have been reading about named colors...

Thank you for all of your responses. I wish I could work through them right now and hopefully increase my understanding of how named colors work, but I will have to wait until after I return home...

Yes, I do.

Lynn

I can see I am going to have to give more information before anyone can understand my problem. By the way, I am brand new to Xara; I took advantage of the Magix Silver free offer this month. I then...

Pauline,

In addition to classes, you might want the get Gary Bouton's book, Xara Xtreme 5, The Official Guide. You can get it on Amazon for a decent price, and there is a lot of helpful...

I was trying to learn about naming colors. I named a color, only to find it was now in my default color palette, which was now “Untitled1”. I did not want to have the default palette that opens on...